[email protected] ) 18 03 1998 27 01 1998 © 1998 by Company of Biologists 1998 Epidermal patterning Skin barrier Cornified envelope Loricrin Glucocorticoid Mouse The epidermal permeability barrier prevents desiccation, protects against infection and poisoning from...

... loricrin AP2 gene expression skin Adult epidermis is a stratified epithelium in which cells in the innermost, basal layer cease to divide concomitantly with a process of upward movement and terminal differentiation. Dead squames sloughed from the skin surface are proteinaceous, cross-linked...