Sunday 29 December 2013

RENEWING SKIN MINDS


It is unclear how the skin maintains the balance between cell multiplication and shedding in hyperplastic lesions. For instance, how does the skin maintain squamous differentiation in hyperproliferative psoriasis 

This question minds very much to the skin and to skin cancer. To answer it, we may need changing minds.

We defend and discuss a new Model for cell cycle-driven epidermal homeostasis maintenance in a View Point at Experimental Dermatology, formated final PDF in
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/exd.12287/pdf



Cycling up the epidermis. Cycling may help keratinocytes climb up through the suprabasal layers.
Figure 2b. Gandarillas & Freije, Experimental Dermatology, doi/10.1111/exd.12287