SILAB got particularly interested in transcompartmental communication between the dermis and the epidermis during aging ...

The outer layer of dead skin The stratum corneum contains dead skin cells that have been shed from the epidermis. Using facial scrubs and some other skin products helps remove or thin this layer.

Ultraviolet radiation is one of the primary causes of skin cancer; however there are factors that may influence its risk ...

Mayo Clinic's recent study reveals that senescent cells in the skin, commonly dismissed as merely cosmetic concerns, could ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that senescent cells—non-dividing "zombie" cells—accumulate in the skin as people age and may influence aging in other parts of the body. Their recent study ...

Yes. Overdoing exfoliation, both chemical and physical, can irritate the skin by causing it to tear and by damaging the cells ...

In pemphigus foliaceus, anti-Dsg1 antibodies produce blister formation in the upper epidermis, because the remaining Dsg3 can maintain cell–cell ... of both the skin and the mucous membranes.

Skin injury results when the skin to adhesive attachment is stronger than skin cell to skin cell attachment. As a result, the epidermal layers separate or the epidermis separates completely from ...

As a result of this defect, cells are unable to express functional collagen VII protein which is needed to form anchoring fibrils that bond the epidermis to the dermis. Lack of anchoring fibrils leads ...

Those cells will then be suspended in sheets made ... first-degree burns — only affect the very outer layer of skin or epidermis Partial thickness or second-degree burns also damage the second ...