What are the predominant cells of the epidermis?
Keratinocytes, Melanocytes, Merkel cells and Langerhans cells.
Melanocytes are found mostly in which stratum?
Stratum Basale
Gap Junction (Nexus)
In the stratum spinosum each cell has many spine-like processes, what cell junction is associated with the spines?
Which regions of integument do you think are affected in a first-, second-, or third-degree burn?
Epidermis, dermis, hypodermis, dense irregular tissue and dermal papillae
How does this integument compare to the slide above? Specifically, what stratum is not present here that is present on the plantar skin slide? In skin, which layer regularly peels off as dead tissue?
In the claw slide the seems to have a Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium structure. It has luminal spaces, loos, dense papillary and reticular zone integument. The adipocyte is missing. Lastly, the keratin sheds as dead skin.
Sweat and sebaceous.
Glands of skin consist of two types
Sweat glands can be found in hairless regions and areas with hair.
Sweat glands that secrete their contents directly to the surface are eccrine (merocrine).
Sebaceous glands are closely affiliated with hair follicles.
Compound Hair follicles
They are compound because one follicle contains many hairs
Compound hair follicles
Sweat gland