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Distribution of caspase‐14 in epidermis and hair follicles is evolutionarily conserved among mammals
2 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
Caspase-14, a member of the caspase family of cysteine proteases, is almost exclusively expressed in the epidermis. Studies on human and mouse cells and tissues have implicated caspase-14 in terminal differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes and in the formation of the stratum corneum. Here we investigated evolutionary aspects of the role of caspase-14 by analyzing its distribution in the epidermis and hair...
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