Investigating effects of polyamine catabolism on epidermal differentiation

• Main Author: Ling, Blysse
• Other Authors: Leah Vardy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77520
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Human skin has three layers: the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis. The epidermis in turn consists of four layers of increasingly-differentiated keratinocytes. Polyamines, small positively-charged molecules which can bind to the relevant DNA and RNA sequences as small positively-charged molecules and...