Purpura fulminans is a disorder where your skin bleeds and dies rapidly (skin necrosis). The bleeding is caused by blood clots in the dermal layer (skin layer under the top layer or epidermis). The ...

These cross-section images show three-dimensional human skin models made of living skin cells. Untreated model skin (left panel) shows a thinner dermis layer (black arrow) compared with model skin ...

The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while ...

Nanomedicine. 2013;8(4):603-621. Table 1. Strategies for the treatment of skin lesions: main advantages and limitations. Treatment of skin lesions Advantages Limitations Autografts 'Golden standard' ...

Hydraulic permeability - the ability of water to move in all directions through a multicellular complex tissue - allows skin to maintain turgor and appear plump. A new approach to quantify the ...