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Prickle cell layer of epidermis

Known as: Spiny Layer, Stratum Spinosum, Stratum Malphighii 
The part of the epidermis layer of the skin containing Langerhans cells, which are dendritic, MHC class II-expressing antigen presenting cells.
National Institutes of Health

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Epidermis
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1994
1994
Localization of neurofibromin to keratinocytes and melanocytes in developing rat and human skin.
Pigmentation defects are common in the inherited disease type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1), predicting a role for the NF1 gene… 
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
Phenotypes and interactions of human melanocytes and keratinocytes in an epidermal reconstruction model.
The morphologic and antigenic phenotype of normal human melanocytes and keratinocytes was investigated in monolayer and 3… 
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1987
Highly Cited
1987
Immunohistochemical localization of urokinase- and tissue-type plasminogen activators in psoriatic skin.
Biopsies of involved and uninvolved skin from psoriatic patients and of normal skin were stained immunocytochemically with… 
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1987
Highly Cited
1987
Low density lipoprotein receptor expression on keratinocytes in normal and psoriatic epidermis.
Biochemical and morphologic studies on the interaction of low density lipoprotein (LDL) with cultured normal keratinocytes and… 
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1985
Highly Cited
1985
Thin-fiber cutaneous innervation and its intraepidermal contribution studied by labeling methods and neurotoxin treatment in rats.
Sensory nerves innervating rat distal limb skin were labeled by axonal transport of an enzyme-lectin conjugate injected into… 
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1985
Highly Cited
1985
Ultrastructure of the Integument of the Domestic Pig (Sus scroh) from One through Fourteen Weeks of Age
The biopsies of normal lumbar and dorsal thoracic pig epidermis and dermis are described ultrastructurally at one, three, five… 
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1970
Highly Cited
1970
Fine-structural observations on the formation and enzymatic activity of keratinosomes in mouse tongue filiform papillae.
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1968
Highly Cited
1968
The ultrastructure of normal squamous epithelium of the human cervix uteri.
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1962
Highly Cited
1962
The ultrastructure of the epidermis in psoriasis vulgaris as revealed by electron microscopy. 2. The stratum spinosum in parakeratosis without keratohyalin.
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1958
Highly Cited
1958
HISTOLOGY AND CYTOCHEMISTRY OF HUMAN SKIN. XV. SITES OF PHOSPHORYLASE AND AMYLO-1,6-GLUCOSIDASE ACTIVITY
The localization of phosphorylase and amylo-1,6-glucosidase activity has been studied in surgical specimens of human skin from… 
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