Sentences with phrase «shaft of human hair»

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In human hair shafts, several outer layers of flattened cuticle cells surround a layer of cortical cells (making up the cortex), which surrounds the central core of cells, called the medulla.

The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.

A recent study by Wood et al. demonstrated for the first time that human white scalp hair shafts accumulate hydrogen peroxide, a product of oxidation, with absent or very low levels of catalase and methionine sulfoxide reductase (MSR) protein.

This is because fleas can't grasp to the shafts of hair, the way human lice do, so if you give your dog a good bath — just with water, or with a doggy shampoo, if you want — most of her fleas should fall right off and drown.

Parker, G., Leppert, T., Anex, D., Hilmer, J., Matsunami, N., Baird, L., Stevens, J., Parsawar, K., Durbin - Johnson, B., Rocke, D.... (2016) Demonstration of Protein - Based Human Identification Using the Hair Shaft Proteome.

DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0160653 Demonstration of Protein - Based Human Identification Using the Hair Shaft Proteome