Acidic and Basic Hair/Nail (Hard) Keratins: Their Colocalization in Upper Cortical and Cuticle Cells of the Human Hair Follicle and Their Relationship to Soft Keratins

    December 1986 in “ ˜The œjournal of cell biology/˜The œJournal of cell biology ”
    Marion H. Lynch, W. Michael O’Guin, Carolyn Hardy … Tung‐Tien Sun
    Studysummary This study found that specific human hair keratins are differentially expressed in the hair follicle, suggesting a shared pathway of epithelial differentiation between hair cortex and nail plate cells.
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    1. Cell Differentiation in Human Anagen Hair and Hair Follicles Studied with Anti-Hair Keratin Monoclonal Antibodies Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 1986
    2. Genes for Hair and Avian Keratins Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1985
    3. Isolation of Intermediate Filament Assemblies from Human Hair Follicles The Journal of Cell Biology · 1985
    4. In Vitro Biosynthesis of Mouse Hair Keratins Under the Direction of Follicular RNA Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 1982
    5. Keratin Cytoskeletons in Epithelial Cells of Internal Organs Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1979
    6. Structural Features of the Alpha-Type Filaments of the Inner Root Sheath Cells of the Guinea Pig Hair Follicle Biochemistry · 1978
    7. Characterization of the Proteins of Guinea-Pig Hair and Hair-Follicle Tissue Biochemical Journal · 1973

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