Lamellar granule secretion starts before the establishment of tight junction barrier for paracellular tracers in mammalian epidermis.

by Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto, Mari Kishibe, Masamoto Murakami, Masaru Honma, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Hajime Iizuka
Published 2012-01-01

Eccrine sweat contains IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-31 and activates epidermal keratinocytes as a danger signal.

by Xiuju Dai, Hidenori Okazaki, Yasushi Hanakawa, Masamoto Murakami, Mikiko Tohyama, Yuji Shirakata, Koji Sayama
Published 2013-01-01

Vesicular LL-37 contributes to inflammation of the lesional skin of palmoplantar pustulosis.

by Masamoto Murakami, Takaaki Kaneko, Teruaki Nakatsuji, Kenji Kameda, Hidenori Okazaki, Xiuju Dai, Yasushi Hanakawa, Mikiko Tohyama, Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto, Koji Sayama
Published 2014-01-01

Type XVII collagen coordinates proliferation in the interfollicular epidermis

by Mika Watanabe, Ken Natsuga, Wataru Nishie, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Giacomo Donati, Shotaro Suzuki, Yu Fujimura, Tadasuke Tsukiyama, Hideyuki Ujiie, Satoru Shinkuma, Hideki Nakamura, Masamoto Murakami, Michitaka Ozaki, Masaharu Nagayama, Fiona M Watt, Hiroshi Shimizu
Published 2017-07-01