What are keratinocytes? what is keratin?

Keratin: keratin is a type of fibre-protein that can be found in hair, nails, other animal structures, and in our skin.

A really important function of keratin is the one it has in our skin, which consists of protection and holding cells together.

Keratinocytes: keratinocytes, as the "-cytes" suggests, are a type of cell found in our skin, with the function of producing keratin.

A deficiency or problem with these cells can cause a couple of different issues, such as the weakening or growth problems of the diverse amount of things containing significant amounts of keratin.

Hope it helped,

BiologiaMagister

cellular respiration oxidizes food into energy in the form of atps.

glycolysis (6 c hexose) > 2x atps are used > 6c hexose biphosphate > 2 x 3c triphosphate >

2 x 3c pyruvate (2x nadh produced from nad) and (4x atp produced)

pyruvate actively pumped mitochondrial matrix.