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The cells that supply the hair follicle remain active, so the potential for re-growth is always there.
During the last phase, known as the luteal phase, the follicle collapses and the corpus luteum is formed if pregnancy does not occur.
Each hair is made of tough and stretchable protein called keratin, manufactured by the hair follicle.
Feather morphology is an emergent feature of these processes, plus the assembly mechanism inherent in the follicle.
If the plugged follicle, or comedo, stays beneath the skin, it is called a closed comedo and produces a white bump called a whitehead.
The root of the hair extends down into the follicle and widens into a bulb at its base, which is the center of hair growth.
When active, the stem cells proliferate and expand, building up the follicle and producing cells that make new hair.
Earliest changes in the hair follicle occur when the follicular canal becomes blocked with abnormally keratinized desquamating cells.
For more severe infections involving the entire follicle, you may need oral antibiotics or broad-spectrum antifungal agents.
The ventral follicle cells produce proteins, like pipe, that are only deposited in the ventral vitelline envelope.
The cells remaining in the ruptured follicle proliferate rapidly and form the corpus luteum.
Hormone assays for serum estrogen, progesterone, prolactin, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone and testosterone were performed.
This results in atresia of the dominant follicle and re-initiation of follicular recruitment.
Furuncles and carbuncles occur as a follicular infection progresses deeper and extends out from the follicle.
As the follicle grows, the estrogen eventually reaches a threshold level that causes the cow to be in heat.
Yolk proteins may be produced in follicle cells or the ovary or even the hepatopancreas and fat body.
The basic acne lesion, called the comedo, is simply an enlarged and plugged hair follicle.
Each strand of hair grows from a follicle rooted in your skin's subcutaneous tissue.
In insects, the genes that encode the proteins of the egg membrane, the chorion, become amplified in the surrounding follicle cells.
Disorders of alopecia can be divided into those in which the hair follicle is normal and those in which the hair follicle is damaged.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Foulis regards the zona pellucida as a product of the ovum and not of the follicle.
A boil results when the infection is located in a hair follicle or sebaceous gland.
During this time it is not buried in the skin but is able to retreat rapidly into it through a hair follicle or sweat gland.
Hence the hair grown from a follicle under such conditions lacks pigment and is white.
In the passage of the egg through the oviduct the vacuolated follicle cells grow out into very peculiar long processes or villi.
At the bottom of the follicle there is an upward projection of the true skin, a papilla, which contains blood-vessels and nerves.
The follicular odontoma, also known as a dentigerous cyst, is derived from the distension of a tooth follicle.
An ovum becomes mature, breaks through its Graafian follicle in the ovary and is set free.
This is now enlarged by the breaking down of the remaining tissue of the follicle, then of the submucosa.
A secretion deposited in a follicle of the prepuce of Moschus moschiferus, Linn.
Oviparous, with a large-yolked and meroblastic ovum, enclosed within a follicle of two rows of cells.
The immediate exciting cause is the entrance into the follicle of a microbe, the staphylococcus pyogenes aureus.
The follicle, which splits on one side only, through the placenta.
A hair, broken or unbroken, frequently pierces the follicle.
This bursting of the follicle has not actually been observed.
By contrast, the immature eggs sold by the sturgeon slaughterers are covered with blood corpuscles and follicle cells.
The hair follicle, a type of epidermal appendage, is composed of dermal papillae cells, epithelial cells of the root sheath, and the hair shaft.
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