Epidermis consists of stratum germinativum and outer stratum corneum Five layers, from outside in: First, a thick, dead, heavily keratinized layer formed by death of cells and deposition of keratin in ...
Her knees are covered with red blotches, scaly and peeling. Skin cells migrate from their birthplace at the base of the epidermis outward to the surface of the skin. This movement, in normal skin ...
Pemphigus is an autoimmune bullous disease, in which autoantibodies react with the cell–cell adhesion structures, desmosomes, causing blisters and erosions on the oral mucosa and skin.
Melanomas are cancerous cells that originate from melanocytes in the epidermis. Although melanoma only represents around 6% of skin cancers, it is responsible for more than 80% of skin cancer ...
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 ...