Skin: Your Body's Biggest Organ
In short: Skin is a dynamic, multi-layered organ that acts as a protective barrier, a sensory system, and an active immune organ.
A 1:14 short film in the series “Mysteries Explained”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: National Institutes of Health, “The Ontogeny of Skin”; Springer, “Skin Structure and Functions of the Skin”; National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Keep Your Skin Healthy”; National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Health Lesson: Learning About Skin”; NIH, “Diversification and Specialization of Touch Receptors in Skin”; National Institutes of Health, “Slowly‐adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: Evidence from single unit intraneural microstimulation”; National Institutes of Health, “Making an epidermis”; National Institutes of Health, “Transcriptional and signalling regulation of skin epithelial stem cells in homeostasis, wounds and cancer”; National Institutes of Health (NIH), “The skin as an immune organ”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “The influence of lifestyle and environmental factors on host resilience through a homeostatic skin microbiota: An EAACI Task Force Report”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Modelling the Complexity of Human Skin In Vitro”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Blank Spots in the Map of Human Skin: The Challenge for Xenotransplantation”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Cracking the Skin Barrier: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Shines under the Skin”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Epithelial Skin Biology: Three Decades of Developmental Biology, a Hundred Questions Answered and a Thousand New Ones to Address”.
Sources used in this film
- National Institutes of Health — The Ontogeny of Skin · View →
- Springer — Skin Structure and Functions of the Skin · View →
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Keep Your Skin Healthy · View →
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Health Lesson: Learning About Skin · View →
- NIH — Diversification and Specialization of Touch Receptors in Skin · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Slowly‐adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: Evidence from single unit intraneural microstimulation · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Making an epidermis · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Transcriptional and signalling regulation of skin epithelial stem cells in homeostasis, wounds and cancer · View →
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The skin as an immune organ · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — The influence of lifestyle and environmental factors on host resilience through a homeostatic skin microbiota: An EAACI Task Force Report · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — Modelling the Complexity of Human Skin In Vitro · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — Blank Spots in the Map of Human Skin: The Challenge for Xenotransplantation · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — Cracking the Skin Barrier: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Shines under the Skin · View →
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) — Epithelial Skin Biology: Three Decades of Developmental Biology, a Hundred Questions Answered and a Thousand New Ones to Address · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: National Institutes of Health: The Ontogeny of Skin
- Also: Springer: Skin Structure and Functions of the Skin
- Also: National Institutes of Health (NIH): Keep Your Skin Healthy
- Also: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH): Health Lesson: Learning About Skin
- Also: NIH: Diversification and Specialization of Touch Receptors in Skin
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Slowly‐adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: Evidence from single unit intraneural microstimulation
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Making an epidermis
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Transcriptional and signalling regulation of skin epithelial stem cells in homeostasis, wounds and cancer
- Also: National Institutes of Health (NIH): The skin as an immune organ
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): The influence of lifestyle and environmental factors on host resilience through a homeostatic skin microbiota: An EAACI Task Force Report
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Modelling the Complexity of Human Skin In Vitro
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Blank Spots in the Map of Human Skin: The Challenge for Xenotransplantation
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Cracking the Skin Barrier: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Shines under the Skin
- Also: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Epithelial Skin Biology: Three Decades of Developmental Biology, a Hundred Questions Answered and a Thousand New Ones to Address
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