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  2. Hair follicle - Wikipedia

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    There are many structures that make up the hair follicle. Anatomically, the triad of hair follicle, sebaceous gland and arrector pili muscle make up the pilosebaceous unit. [1] A hair follicle consists of : The papilla is a large structure at the base of the hair follicle. [4] The papilla is made up mainly of connective tissue and a capillary ...

  3. Hair plexus - Wikipedia

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    A hair plexus or root hair plexus is a special group of nerve fiber endings and serves as a very sensitive mechanoreceptor for touch sensation. Hair contains a number of different types of nerve endings.

  4. Arrector pili muscle - Wikipedia

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    Each arrector pili is composed of a bundle of smooth muscle fibres which attach to several follicles (a follicular unit). [4] Each is innervated by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. [4] The muscle attaches to the follicular stem cell niche in the follicular bulge, [3] [4] [5] splitting at their deep end to encircle the ...

  5. Human skin - Wikipedia

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    Tissue mass is defined at 3.3 kg (ICRP-89, ICRP110) and addresses the skin's epidermis, dermis, hair follicles, and glands. The cell data is extracted from 'The Human Cell Count and Cell Size Distribution', [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Tissue-Table tab in the Supporting Information SO1 Dataset (xlsx).

  6. Inner root sheath - Wikipedia

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    The inner root sheath or internal root sheath of the hair follicle is located between the outer root sheath and the hair shaft. [1] It is made of three layers: Henle's layer, Huxley's layer, and the cuticle. [2] The inner root sheaf serves to protect growing hair. [3]

  7. Huxley's layer - Wikipedia

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    Huxley's layer is the second layer of the inner root sheath of the hair and consists of one or two layers of horny, flattened, nucleated cells. It lies between Henle's layer and the cuticle . [ 1 ]

  8. Skin appendage - Wikipedia

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    In humans, some of the more common skin appendages are hairs (sensation, heat loss, filter for breathing, protection), arrector pilli (smooth muscles that pull hairs straight), sebaceous glands (secrete sebum onto hair follicle, which oils the hair), sweat glands (can secrete sweat with strong odour or with a faint odour (merocrine or eccrine ...

  9. Human hair growth - Wikipedia

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    Hair-follicle cycling Hair grows at different speeds and different lengths. Its composition causes different colors and textures, which influence how long the hair strands grow. Marianne Ernst, a German "long hair model" The three stages of hair growth are the anagen, catagen, and telogen phases. Each strand of hair on the human body is at its ...