Abstract
Since horny cells are continually being shed from the skin surface, it is a relatively simple matter to collect these corneocytes without harm or inconvenience to the donor and to examine them in a variety of ways. A great deal of information can be obtained about the structure and function of the stratum corneum and the underlying viable epidermis by using these exfoliative cytological procedures [4, 5, 8].
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Grove, G.L., Kligman, A.M. (1983). Corneocytes Size as An Indirect Measure of Epidermal Proliferative Activity. In: Marks, R., Plewig, G. (eds) Stratum Corneum. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68682-5_23
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