The Extraction And Characterization Of Human Nail Keratin

    December 1991 in “ Journal of Dermatological Science ”
    Takashi Kitahara, Hideyuki Ogawa
    Studysummary Human nails contain both skin and hair keratins, each needing different extraction methods.
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    Research cited in this study 2

    1. 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 ˜The œjournal of cell biology/˜The œJournal of cell biology · 1986
    2. The Complement of Native Alpha-Keratin Polypeptides of Hair-Forming Cells: A Subset of Eight Polypeptides That Differ from Epithelial Cytokeratins Differentiation · 1986

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