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The skin is one of the largest organs of the body. In humans, it accounts for about 12 to 15 percent of total body weight and covers 1.5 to 2 m 2 of surface area. [1] 3D still showing human integumentary system. The skin (integument) is a composite organ, made up of at least two major layers of tissue: the epidermis and the dermis. [2]
Role of skin in locomotion describes how the integumentary system is involved in locomotion. Typically the integumentary system can be thought of as skin, however the integumentary system also includes the segmented exoskeleton in arthropods and feathers of birds. The primary role of the integumentary system is to provide protection for the ...
22173 Ensembl ENSG00000077498 ENSMUSG00000004651 UniProt P14679 P11344 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000372 NM_011661 NM_001317397 RefSeq (protein) NP_000363 NP_001304326 NP_035791 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 89.18 – 89.3 Mb Chr 7: 87.07 – 87.14 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Tyrosinase is an oxidase that is the rate-limiting enzyme for controlling the production of melanin. The ...
The word skin originally only referred to dressed and tanned animal hide and the usual word for human skin was hide. Skin is a borrowing from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur", ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-, meaning "to cut" (probably a reference to the fact that in those times animal hide was commonly cut off to be used as garment).
All of the organs that rise from the ectoderm such as the nervous system, teeth, hair and many exocrine glands, originate from two adjacent tissue layers: the epithelium and the mesenchyme. [8] Several signals mediate the organogenesis of the ectoderm such as: FGF , TGFβ , Wnt , and regulators from the hedgehog family .
Neurology – Medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system; Neuropsychology – Study of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors; Neuroscience – Scientific study of the nervous system – study of development, work and structure of nervous system; Neurypnology – study of hypnotism [citation needed]
[5] Cholecalciferol is converted in the liver to calcifediol (also known as calcidiol or 25-hydroxycholecalciferol), while ergocalciferol is converted to ercalcidiol (25-hydroxyergocalciferol). These two vitamin D metabolites, collectively referred to as 25-hydroxyvitamin D or 25(OH)D, are measured in serum to assess a person's vitamin D status.
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.