cornified layer

The constant thickness of the cornified layer results most commonly from regular superficial exfoliation.

The fungi can usually only infect the nonliving cornified layers of epidermis.

A cornified layer, a granular layer.

They are usually restricted to the nonliving cornified layer of the epidermis because of their inability to penetrate viable tissue of an immunocompetent host.

Keratin filaments are abundant in keratinocytes in the cornified layer of the epidermis; these are cells which have undergone keratinization.

Areas infected with CD appear discolored, dry, rough and flakey, with peeling, pitting and chipping through multiple cornified layers.

Just like the cornified layer of epidermis and of any mammalian nail, the hoof capsule is created only from epidermis, the outer living layer of the skin.

Skin: In new-born mouse skin, mS100a7a15 is localized to the epidermal granular and cornified layers of the interfollicular epidermis and to the maturing cells of hair follicles.

These skin cells finally become the cornified layer (stratum corneum), the outermost epidermal layer, where the cells become flattened sacks with their nuclei located at one end of the cell.

Rubbing and pressure cause thickening of the outer, cornified layer of the epidermis and form protective calluses - useful for athletes and on the fingertips of musicians who play stringed instruments.