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Hair shaft structure

Known as: Shaft of the Hair, Hair Shaft, hairs shaft 
The segment of the hair that projects above the skin surface.
National Institutes of Health

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2016
2016
Fetal exposure to ethanol: relationship between ethyl glucuronide in maternal hair during pregnancy and ethyl glucuronide in neonatal meconium
Abstract Background: In recent years, fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) and ethyl glucuronide (EtG) in meconium emerged as reliable… 
2005
2005
Segmental Igfbp5 expression is specifically associated with the bent structure of zigzag hairs
2005
2005
Mitochondrial DNA error prophylaxis: assessing the causes of errors in the GEP'02-03 proficiency testing trial.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Essential roles of BMPR‐IA signaling in differentiation and growth of hair follicles and in skin tumorigenesis
Summary: Hair differentiation and growth are controlled by complex reciprocal signaling between epithelial and mesenchymal cells… 
1998
1998
Targeted follicular delivery of macromolecules via liposomes
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Outer root sheath keratinization in anagen and catagen of the mammalian hair follicle. A seventh distinct type of keratinization in the hair follicle: trichilemmal keratinization.
Trichilemmal keratinization, first described in Maurer in 1895 and rediscovered by Holmes (1968) and Pinkus (1968) converts the… 
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1980
Highly Cited
1980
Lamellar ichthyosis, dwarfism, mental retardation, and hair shaft abnormalities. A link between the ichthyosis-associated and BIDS syndromes.
1973
1973
The ultrastructure of chemoreceptor sensilla in Ciniflo (Araneida, Arachnida).
1972
1972
Hair chromium concentrations of human newborn and changes during infancy.
Deficiency of the essential trace nutrient chromium has been implicated in disorders of carbohydrate metabolism in a number of… 
1969
1969
Multiple defects of the hair shaft in Netherton's disease. Association with ichthyosis linearis circumflexa.
—Two patients are reported \A'ith ichthyosis linearis circumflexa as the cutaneous manifestation of a syndrome resembling… 
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