These help the body convert a substance known as
keratin into collagen, plus regulate the body's production of growth hormones.
Some whales build up waxes, lipids and
keratin into earplugs that tell researchers about a whale's lifetime exposure to pollution.
Not exact matches
They took the photo during the course of research
into the dynamics of
keratin filaments in skin cells.
This 30 - foot animal may have scavenged carcasses; markings on the bone imply its head was covered with
keratin, the material in our fingernails, which might have protected its face while it tore
into its food.
The bristle - like structure of the
keratin in a toe pad helps it to stick — each pad is covered with microscopic pillars, which then branch out at the tips
into even smaller structures.
Most male mammals wield a penis covered with spines made of
keratin, the same material that forms fingernails, to sweep out competitors» sperm and irritate a female
into ovulating.
Great hair can be dangerous Walk
into a salon offering a
keratin treatment, and you may see stylists in masks with fans pointed their way.
Vitamin A also reduces your production of
keratin, the protein that clumps your dead skin cells together
into pore - blocking, acne causing blobs.
The best foods for hair growth are foods from plants that our body can quickly digest and turn
into keratin.
Arsenic is particularly evil for acne; it can dramatically rev up production of
keratin, the protein that glues dead skin cells together
into pore - blocking clumps.
It is squalene peroxide that kicks clogged pores
into a higher gear; it stimulates a localised increase in oil production, and a localised increase in
keratin, a protein that binds dead skin cells together
into giant clumps.
In dogs with seborrhea, the skin cells are too quick to turn
into the
keratin scales, so there's an excess of these scales on the skin.
The first is a condition which affects the nose and feet, called Nasodigital Hyperkeratosis, in which the
keratin in the nose and paw pads develops
into a tough, fibrous growth — often resembling callusing.