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Kazeer [188]
3 years ago
12

Name the protein which fills the cells of the stratum corneum and gives the skin its strength.

Biology
1 answer:
yKpoI14uk [10]3 years ago
4 0

Keratin is an intracellular fibrous protein that gives hair, nails, and skin their hardness, strength, and water-resistant properties. The keratinocytes in the stratum corneum are dead and regularly slough away, being replaced by cells from the deeper layers

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