Experiments in the 1960s had revealed that the fibroblast-containing dermal compartment of the skin determines the identity of the outermost skin layer, the epidermis, in mammals. When researchers had ...

Endothelial, myeloid, and fibroblast cells in the dermis ... trafficking through the dermis and epidermis to the apical surface of the skin,” the authors stated. “These findings may explain ...

In this case, the team used explants that spanned the surface layer (epidermis) of skin through to the middle layer (dermis ... purpose as a barrier – and fibroblasts, which have multiple ...