Epidermis
"Epidermis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The external, nonvascular layer of the skin. It is made up, from within outward, of five layers of EPITHELIUM: (1) basal layer (stratum basale epidermidis); (2) spinous layer (stratum spinosum epidermidis); (3) granular layer (stratum granulosum epidermidis); (4) clear layer (stratum lucidum epidermidis); and (5) horny layer (stratum corneum epidermidis).
| Descriptor ID |
D004817
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A10.272.497 A17.815.250
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidermis" by people in Profiles.
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Evers BM, Farooqi MS, Shelton JM, Richardson JA, Goldstein JL, Brown MS, Liang G. Hair growth defects in Insig-deficient mice caused by cholesterol precursor accumulation and reversed by simvastatin. J Invest Dermatol. 2010 May; 130(5):1237-48.