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Hair follicle structure

Known as: Hair Follicles, Folliculus pili, HAIR FOLLICLE 
A tube-like invagination of the EPIDERMIS from which the hair shaft develops and into which SEBACEOUS GLANDS open. The hair follicle is lined by a… 
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ATRICHIA WITH PAPULAR LESIONSPili annulatiPili multigeminiTelogen hair follicle
Acanthoma, Pilar SheathArachidonate 12-Lipoxygenase, 12R-TypeBenign Germinative Follicular Epithelium NeoplasmBenign Hair Follicle Neoplasm

Broader (3)

EpidermisFolliclePilosebaceous unit

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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The role of the hairless (hr) gene in the regulation of hair follicle catagen transformation.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Telomerase activity concentrates in the mitotically active segments of human hair follicles.
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme capable of adding hexanucleotide repeats onto the ends of linear chromosomal DNA… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Cutaneous overexpression of NT-3 increases sensory and sympathetic neuron number and enhances touch dome and hair follicle innervation
Target-derived influences of nerve growth factor on neuronal survival and differentiation are well documented, though effects of… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Follicles play an important role in percutaneous absorption.
The relative importance of stratum corneum and follicles in percutaneous absorption is not fully understood. In order to… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Transcription and expression of transforming growth factor type beta in the skin of progressive systemic sclerosis: a mediator of fibrosis?
Progressive systemic sclerosis is characterized by extensive generalized fibrotic destruction associated with increased… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Pigmented guinea pig skin irradiated with Q-switched ruby laser pulses. Morphologic and histologic findings.
Q-switched ruby laser pulses cause selective damage to cutaneous pigmented cells. Repair of this selective damage has not been… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Patterns of expression of trichocytic and epithelial cytokeratins in mammalian tissues. I. Human and bovine hair follicles.
The cytokeratin family of intermediate filament (IF) proteins can be grouped into the epithelial polypeptides ("soft alpha… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Patterns of expression of trichocytic and epithelial cytokeratins in mammalian tissues. II. Concomitant and mutually exclusive synthesis of trichocytic and epithelial cytokeratins in diverse human…
The hair-forming cells (trichocytes) and the mature hair contain four major trichocytic cytokeratins from each of the subfamilies… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Studies of the pathogenesis of orf virus infection in sheep.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Adenylyl cyclase activities in ovarian tissues. I. Homogenization and conditions of assay in graafian follicles and corpora lutea of rabbits, rats, and pigs: regulation by ATP, and some comparative…
Responsiveness of ovarian adenylyl cyclases to luteinizing hormone (LH), found to be 5 to 10-fold in cell-free preparations under… 
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