For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove ...
How the skin enables immune defences is not fully clear. Now a pathway has been found in skin cells that boosts the production of antibodies to protect the whole body. Beyond its role as a physical ...
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Skin renews despite 60% to 70% fibroblast depletion in mice, challenging long-held assumption
Human skin is constantly rebuilding itself. Every few weeks, the outermost layers shed and are replaced by new cells pushed up from the base. For decades, scientists believed this renewal depended ...
(The Conversation) – Not so long ago, people like my Aunt Muriel thought of sunburn as a necessary evil on the way to a “good base tan.” She used to slather on the baby oil while using a large ...
Your skin cells can generate electricity when wounded. Torsten Wittmann, University of California, San Francisco/NIH via Flickr, CC BY-NC Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that ...
This graphic illustrates paracrine adhesion signaling on small extracellular vesicles, which secretes a protein called galectin-3, which promotes endocytosis so the vesicle can be absorbed into the ...
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