In a nutshell While scratching worsens allergic skin conditions like eczema by increasing inflammation, it also activates a ...
A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...
A pink blob with beady eyes is gaining widespread attention online – because this newly-developed robot has what researchers ...
Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers at Okayama University have ...
The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while ...
The model showed that these mice developed all the major features of diabetes within eight to 12 weeks of starting the diet. At about 6 months, axons in the skin began to degenerate, indicating ...
This study integratively characterized the function of these nerve endings in the proteoglycan-induced chronic arthritis (PGIA), a translational model of rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS: Peptidergic ...