Epidermis

"Epidermis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The external, nonvascular layer of the skin. It is made up, from within outward, of five layers of EPITHELIUM: (1) basal layer (stratum basale epidermidis); (2) spinous layer (stratum spinosum epidermidis); (3) granular layer (stratum granulosum epidermidis); (4) clear layer (stratum lucidum epidermidis); and (5) horny layer (stratum corneum epidermidis).

Descriptor ID	D004817
MeSH Number(s)	A10.272.497 A17.815.250
Concept/Terms	Epidermis Epidermis

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Anatomy [A]
Tissues [A10]
Epithelium [A10.272]
Epidermis [A10.272.497]
Integumentary System [A17]
Skin [A17.815]
Epidermis [A17.815.250]

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Epidermis
Hair Follicle

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Bar chart showing 21 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2006 and 2011 and 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2006	1	1	2
2009	1	0	1
2011	1	1	2
2013	1	1	2
2014	1	1	2
2015	1	1	2
2016	1	0	1
2018	2	0	2
2019	1	0	1
2020	1	0	1
2023	0	1	1
2026	1	0	1

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Thompson SM, Yaple VS, Searle GH, Phan QM, Makkar J, Cheng X, Liu R, Pulawska-Czub A, Yanke C, Williams NM, Busch IV, Duong TT, Corneto MV, Jordan ZS, Roy D, Salmon AB, Slayden OD, Hermann BP, Stoltz DA, Welsh MJ, Glass IA, Kobielak K, Nie Q, Jin S, Jansen HT, Ciccarelli M, Plikus MV, Driskell IM, Driskell RR. Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin. Nature. 2026 03; 651(8104):135-145.

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Wu CH, Ma HJH, Baessler P, Balanay RK, Ray TR. Skin-interfaced microfluidic systems with spatially engineered 3D fluidics for sweat capture and analysis. Sci Adv. 2023 05 03; 9(18):eadg4272.

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Rodriguez AJ, Boonya-Ananta MT, Gonzalez M, Le VND, Fine J, Palacios C, McShane MJ, Cot? GL, Ramella-Roman JC. Skin optical properties in the obese and their relation to body mass index: a review. J Biomed Opt. 2022 03; 27(3).

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Kim M, Morales LD, Lee CJ, Olivarez SA, Kim WJ, Hernandez J, Mummidi S, Jenkinson C, Tsin AT, Jang IS, Slaga TJ, Kim DJ. Overexpression of TC-PTP in murine epidermis attenuates skin tumor formation. Oncogene. 2020 05; 39(21):4241-4256.

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Reeder JT, Choi J, Xue Y, Gutruf P, Hanson J, Liu M, Ray T, Bandodkar AJ, Avila R, Xia W, Krishnan S, Xu S, Barnes K, Pahnke M, Ghaffari R, Huang Y, Rogers JA. Waterproof, electronics-enabled, epidermal microfluidic devices for sweat collection, biomarker analysis, and thermography in aquatic settings. Sci Adv. 2019 01; 5(1):eaau6356.

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Krishnan SR, Ray TR, Ayer AB, Ma Y, Gutruf P, Lee K, Lee JY, Wei C, Feng X, Ng B, Abecassis ZA, Murthy N, Stankiewicz I, Freudman J, Stillman J, Kim N, Young G, Goudeseune C, Ciraldo J, Tate M, Huang Y, Potts M, Rogers JA. Epidermal electronics for noninvasive, wireless, quantitative assessment of ventricular shunt function in patients with hydrocephalus. Sci Transl Med. 2018 10 31; 10(465).

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Baek M, Kim M, Lim JS, Morales LD, Hernandez J, Mummidi S, Williams-Blangero S, Jang IS, Tsin AT, Kim DJ. Epidermal-specific deletion of TC-PTP promotes UVB-induced epidermal cell survival through the regulation of Flk-1/JNK signaling. Cell Death Dis. 2018 06 28; 9(7):730.

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Perelygina L, Plotkin S, Russo P, Hautala T, Bonilla F, Ochs HD, Joshi A, Routes J, Patel K, Wehr C, Icenogle J, Sullivan KE. Rubella persistence in epidermal keratinocytes and granuloma M2 macrophages in patients with primary immunodeficiencies. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 11; 138(5):1436-1439.e11.

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Panoutsopoulou IG, Luciano CA, Wendelschafer-Crabb G, Hodges JS, Kennedy WR. Epidermal innervation in healthy children and adolescents. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Mar; 51(3):378-84.

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Mawson AR, Eriator I, Karre S. Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN): could retinoids play a causative role? Med Sci Monit. 2015 Jan 12; 21:133-43.

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