[Contribution to hair medulla study (author's transl)]. 1981

J L Clément, and A Le Pareux, and P F Ceccaldi

In this study, the authors aim to bring to light the anatomical characteristics of the medullary cells of hairs and to examine the evolution of these characteristics according to the mammals genuses. Previous studies of the morphogenesis of the medullary cells have shown that the cytoplasm of the medulla would turn amorphous while microfibrils are formed in the cytoplasm of the inner root sheath. The medulla and the inner root sheath are sulfur-poor but are rich in citrulline and the proteins are bound by epsilon(gammaglutamyl)lysine dipeptides. Our observations, both anatomical and ultrastructural, with the SEM and the TEM, have showed that the medullary cell is also evolved and complex that the others hairs cells. Furthermore, we have observed that the medullary cell content of some mammal's hairs is amorphous, as was shoôn in previous works; but it seems to evolve towards a biphasic phase (or granular) in superior mammals while the medullary cells of the hairs of human and closely related anthropoids contain macrofibrils and microfibrils. Medullary microfibrils are similar to those of the inner root sheath of the hair and therefore, we now understand why citrulline and epsilon(gammaglutamyl)lysine bonds are also found in the medullary cells.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006197 Hair A filament-like structure consisting of a shaft which projects to the surface of the SKIN from a root which is softer than the shaft and lodges in the cavity of a HAIR FOLLICLE. It is found on most surfaces of the body. Fetal Hair,Hair, Fetal,Lanugo,Fetal Hairs,Hairs,Hairs, Fetal
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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