Sentence examples for outermost skin layer from inspiring English sources

The low permeability is a result of the structure of the outermost skin layer, which consists of flat dead cells filled with keratin fibers surrounded by fatty layers.

The ectoderm, on the other hand, eventually forms certain "outer linings" of the body, including the epidermis (outermost skin layer) and hair.

Previous attempts at growing skin from stem cells have only got as far as producing implantable sheets of epithelial cells, which formed the outermost skin layer but lacked functional elements such as oil-secreting sebaceous and sweat glands.

It needs to be inserted just under the outermost skin layer, about 4 inches above the elbow, where it can slowly secrete a hormone that temporarily blocks conception.

These are secreted by the one-cell deep epidermis (outermost skin layer).

Due to its high molecular weight (550.9 g/mol) OCT should be retarded by the outermost skin layer, the stratum corneum.

Thus, the hydration of their outermost skin layers does not require hydration mechanisms active in the epidermis of terrestrial mammals.

When skin barrier function was modestly compromised, the nanoparticles remained incapable of penetration beyond the most superficial layers, corresponding to a depth of 2 3 μm, of the stratum corneum (the outermost, 15 20 μm skin layer).

Wounds were closed by making a single suture on one layer and three to five independent sutures on the outermost skin.

The outermost skin cells may be pigmented, as in humans, or special pigment-containing cells, chromatophores, may occur in the deeper layers of the skin.

The chytrid develops while normal renewal of skin layers occurs such that when zoosporangia are mature, they are at the outermost layer of amphibian skin [50].