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This looks amazing, but it's a bit vague. While it may be satisfactory as "functional" skin, does it have nerves?
by givinguflac 10y ago
This looks amazing, but it's a bit vague. While it may be satisfactory as "functional" skin, does it have nerves?
- ihaveajob 10y agoThere are no nerves in the epidermis.
- yorwba 10y agoIt says in the article that they also replicate the dermis. Although I'm no expert, it seems to me that the dermis does have nerves: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Skin_layers.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Skin_lay...
- ihaveajob 10y agoI stand corrected.
- robbiep 10y agoFull thickness skin grafts become sensate so they don't have to have nerves, as long as the underlying tissue isn't cooked too badly nerves and other autonomic functions will grow into it. (Well, its very interesting to think if they have been able to replicate the entire dermis... there are lots of components and I would think that this may probably only be able to replicate the most important components, later we will learn how to integrate the other bits)