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Your skin is made up of two layers that cover a third fatty layer. The outer layer is called the epidermis, and the second layer is called the dermis, which contains nerve endings, sweat glands, oil glands and hair follicles.

The most important cell type of the skin, in fact the one that can be actually said to form up the skin in common speak, are keratinocytes.

It should be noted that skin can be divided into epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.

  • Epidermis is made up of the aforementioned keratinocytes plus melanocytes, Langerhans cells, and the Merkels cell.
  • In the dermis fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells and various epithelial cellscan be found.
  • Finally, in the hypodermis one can find adipose cells, distinct immune cells, nerve cells, and again fibroblasts, endothelial cells and various epithelial cells
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