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THE DIRECTION OF GROWTH OF HUMAN EPIDERMIS
Author(s) -
PINKUS HERMANN
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1970.tb15742.x
Subject(s) - epidermis (zoology) , acanthosis , neuroscience , biology , movement (music) , microbiology and biotechnology , dermatology , anatomy , medicine , art , aesthetics , hyperkeratosis
SUMMARY A review of epidermal and dermal architecture and biology provides an array of facts supporting the classical concept that movement of cells in the human epidermis is in an outward direction in the steady state as well as in the development of non‐neoplastic acanthosis. The review provides no data which would require an adjustment of our thinking to accept Ryan's (1966) hypothesis of inward migration.