Sentences with phrase «keratin scales»

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.

One theory is that ancestral snakes shook their tails to warn off predators, and the noise - making rattle — which is made of a series of hollow, modified keratin scales — evolved later as a more effective signal that took advantage of the pre-existing behaviour.

Not exact matches

Ophidiomyces consumes keratin, a key ingredient in snake scales.

Vertebrate scales, like hair and nails, are made of lightweight keratin.

Millar's group and her clinical collaborators, including Emily Chu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology and John McGrath, MD, from King's College, London, also discovered that cracking and scaling of palm and foot sole skin in WNT10A patients is due to decreased expression of a structural protein called Keratin 9, which is specifically expressed in these regions of skin and contributes to its mechanical integrity.

As was shown in 2004 when the chicken genome was published, chickens have numerous copies of the scale, claw, and particularly the feather beta - keratin sequences in their genome.

Feather beta - keratin is about 100 amino acids long, with scale and claw being longer still.

These include scale beta - keratin, claw beta - keratin and feather beta - keratin.

And as part of the international team that recently published full genomes of 48 birds in Science magazine, Greenwold and Sawyer showed that the number of scale, claw and feather beta - keratin genes is highly variable among all birds.

Despite the monikers, the scale, claw and feather beta - keratins are all mixed in varying amounts in all of the avian epidermal appendages.

Normal round skin cells become dry and flat scales of keratin as they age and move up to the surface of the skin.

It contains sulfur - lime, which is a keratolytic product, i.e. Compounds which remove keratin from scales on skin.