Sentence examples for scaled skin from inspiring English sources

A puncture event as would occur from a predator's attack however involves more than one scale, and in this article we therefore investigate collective mechanisms occurring within the scaled skin of a fish in the event of a predator's attack.

The present study introduces a basic two-dimensional micromechanical model that permits to establish a correlation between the flexural response of a scaled skin and the nature of its underlying structure, including both geometric and material aspects.

The simple or complex colouration patterns (which help in camouflage and anti-predator display) are a property of the underlying skin, but the folded nature of scaled skin allows bright skin to be concealed between scales then revealed in order to startle predators.

Rbpj/Tgfb3-Cre mice did not develop pelage after P5 and later displayed severely dry and scaled skin at P11 (Figure 2A).

Toxinoses (e.g., toxin shock syndrome, scaled skin syndrome, and food-borne gastroenteritis) constitute a separate group of staphylococcal diseases resulting from the local or systemic effects of specific toxins [1], [2].

Pathogenesis of the bacterium relies on an arsenal of virulence-associated factors, some of which specifically produce toxin-induced diseases (e.g. bullous impetigo, toxic shock syndrome, staphylococcal scaled skin syndrome and food-borne gastroenteritis) (Archer, 1998; Lowy, 1998).

Physicians use various wet dressings, lotions, gels, creams, and ointments to treat acutely inflamed weeping and crusting sores and to moisturize and protect dry, cracked, and scaling skin.

A home device could lighten a skin lesion that is actually a melanoma skin cancer or remove scaling skin, the symptom of another type of skin cancer.

AE is characterized by itchy, dry, rough, and scaling skin.

Asteatotic eczema (AE) is characterized by itchy, dry, rough, and scaling skin.

Ectopic expression of these causal regulators has demonstrated that a fairly simple genetic switch can shift the state of skin development from feather to scale skin or vice versa.