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Keratinocytes

"Keratinocytes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Epidermal cells which synthesize keratin and undergo characteristic changes as they move upward from the basal layers of the epidermis to the cornified (horny) layer of the skin. Successive stages of differentiation of the keratinocytes forming the epidermal layers are basal cell, spinous or prickle cell, and the granular cell.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Keratinocytes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Keratinocytes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 106 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2006
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