EpiSkin / Human Epidermis

Name

EpiSkinTM Small or Large / Reconstructed Human Epidermis

Description

EpiSkinTM is an in vitro reconstructed human epidermis from normal human keratinocytes cultured on a collagen matrix at the air-liquid interface. This model exists at different stages of maturity.

This model is histologically similar to the in vivo human epidermis.

 

Specific markers

Differentiation markers:

  • Filaggrin
  • Involucrin
  • Loricrin
  • Keratin 10
  • Keratin 5
  • Presence of different epidermal classes of lipids comprising ceramides

Dermal-Epidermal junction markers

  • Type IV collagen
  • Laminin V
  • Alpha6Beta4-integrin
  • BP antigen

Proliferation markers

  • Ki67
Episkin inVitro
in vitro

Applications

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