Dermis

The stomata is used for transpiration and exchange of gases. Water Lilies are adapted with stoma on the upper dermis and not the lower. I guess we all learn new things everyday, I did not know about the concentration ratio among atmosphere and hydrosphere, and now a question comes ...

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Hi. I'm looking into understanding how much glucose is in the various layers of skin. Specifically the epidermis and dermis. And how much interstitial fluid (ISF) is in the various layers and how much volume is taken up by cells in these layer. and how the ISF differs from the ...

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... the nervous system/brain), but some books give different informations: 1. Are the Merkel cells located only in the stratum germinativum of the epidermis? 2. Are the Meissner corpuscles located only in the dermis? 3. Are the Merkel cells and the Meissner corpuscles associated both with the same ...

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... to this rule and have very good cell division rates - this is why superficial wounds heal well and without scarring - the underlying tissues (dermis and subcutis, and the muscle if the wound is deep) have poor ability to repair themselves. Basically the only thing they can do is to generate ...

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... self-generated, lesions often progress to open wounds that heal abnormally and usually incompletely. (e.g., heal very slowly with discolored epidermis or seal over with a thick gelatinous outer layer.) 2. Crawling sensations, both within and on the skin surface. Often conceptualized by the patient ...

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