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Keratins, Hair-Specific

Known as: Trichocyte Type Cytokeratins, Hair Keratins, Keratins, Hard Tissue 
Keratins that are specific for hard tissues such as HAIR; NAILS; and the filiform papillae of the TONGUE.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2009
Review
2009
Endocrine controls of keratin expression
Keratins are a family of intermediate filaments that serve various crucial roles in skin physiology. For mammalian skin to… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
FOXN1 is critical for onycholemmal terminal differentiation in nude (Foxn1) mice.
Nude mice have a mutation in the transcription factor Foxn1(nu), resulting in downregulation of hair keratins. Although hair… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Integrin and basement membrane normalization in mouse grafts of human keratinocytes--implications for epidermal homeostasis.
Integrin patterns and formation of basement membrane (BM) were investigated in correlation to epidermal growth and… 
1994
1994
Sequence and expression of murine type I hair keratins mHa2 and mHa3.
A cDNA library was constructed with poly(A)+ RNA from mouse tail epidermis which contained all hair follicles of tail skin. The… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Transient expression of mouse hair keratins in transfected HeLa cells: interactions between "hard" and "soft" keratins.
Although it has been shown previously that an acidic (type I) "soft" keratin can interact with many basic (type II) "soft… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Expression of hair-related keratins in a soft epithelium: subpopulations of human and mouse dorsal tongue keratinocytes express keratin markers for hair-, skin- and esophageal-types of…
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. III. Hair and nail formation during human fetal development.
Cells forming hair and nail material are characterized by the synthesis of members of a particular group of alpha-keratin… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Polymorphic keratins in human epidermis.
Human epidermal keratins from many different individuals were identified and compared by both high-resolution 1- and 2… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Biochemical variation of hair keratins in man and non-human primates.
Human hair from various racial groups was investigated using the following techniques: amino acid analysis, acrylamide gel… 
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