Skin and Cutaneous Organs

Schummer, August; Wilkens, H.; Vollmerhaus, B.; Habermehl, K. H.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7102-9_3

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“…However, interpreting the skin thickness as a whole as an indicator of skin sensitivity fails to account for the complexity of the skin organ and, crucially, that detection of pain by mammalian skin overwhelmingly occurs in the very superficial layer of the skin (the epidermis), where the source of the painful stimulus (e.g., a strike or a heat source) comes into contact with these cells. Pain receptors of the skin are, in the vast majority, found in the epidermis, terminating in the mid to superficial epidermis [ 22 , 23 ]. These are fine, non-myelinated fibrils that detect damage to epidermal cells [ 22 ].…”

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“…Pain receptors of the skin are, in the vast majority, found in the epidermis, terminating in the mid to superficial epidermis [ 22 , 23 ]. These are fine, non-myelinated fibrils that detect damage to epidermal cells [ 22 ]. There may also be some dermal structures that have potential to act as nociceptors under some circumstances, such as thermal noxious stimulation [ 24 ] and following experimental selective ablation of epidermal nociceptors [ 25 ].…”

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A Comparative Neuro-Histological Assessment of Gluteal Skin Thickness and Cutaneous Nociceptor Distribution in Horses and Humans

Tong

Stewart²,

Johnson

et al. 2020

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The current project aims to build on knowledge of the nociceptive capability of equine skin to detect superficial acute pain, particularly in comparison to human skin. Post-mortem samples of gluteal skin were taken from men (n = 5) and women (n = 5), thoroughbreds and thoroughbred types (mares, n = 11; geldings, n = 9). Only sections that contained epidermis and dermis through to the hypodermis were analysed. Epidermal depth, dermal depth and epidermal nerve counts were conducted by a veterinary pathologist. The results revealed no significant difference between the epidermal nerve counts of humans and horses (t = 0.051, p = 0.960). There were no significant differences between epidermal thickness of humans (26.8 µm) and horses (31.6 µm) for reference (left side) samples (t = 0.117, p = 0.908). The human dermis was significantly thinner than the horse dermis (t = −2.946, p = 0.007). Epidermal samples were thicker on the right than on the left, but only significantly so for horses (t = 2.291, p = 0.023), not for humans (t = 0.694, p = 0.489). The thicker collagenous dermis of horse skin may afford some resilience versus external mechanical trauma, though as this is below the pain-detecting nerve endings, it is not considered protective from external cutaneous pain. The superficial pain-sensitive epidermal layer of horse skin is as richly innervated and is of equivalent thickness as human skin, demonstrating that humans and horses have the equivalent basic anatomic structures to detect cutaneous pain. This finding challenges assumptions about the physical capacity of horses to feel pain particularly in comparison to humans, and presents physical evidence to inform the discussion and debate regarding the ethics of whipping horses.

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A Comparative Neuro-Histological Assessment of Gluteal Skin Thickness and Cutaneous Nociceptor Distribution in Horses and Humans

Tong

Stewart²,

Johnson

et al. 2020

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“…Differences in tissue composition (eg, collagen or elastin content) and thickness between feline and canine skin could account for differences in these findings. 20 The only difference histologically is that the feline epidermis does not have a continuous stratum granulosum and lucidum, as opposed to canine epidermis. 20 Potentially, this could allow the elastin in the feline skin to contract more freely.…”

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Effect of feline skin specimen preparation on postexcision and postfixation tissue shrinkage

Risselada

Mathews

Griffith

2016

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

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“…Skin of horse like other mammals comprise Epiderms, Dermis and Hypodermis. Epidremis that originated from ectoderm is stratified squamous epithelium that subdivided into four strata (stratum basale , spinosum , granilosum and corneum) ,that undergo a pattren of proliferation and keratinizatio, [3]. The average turnover time for horses epidermal to be shed and repalsed are 17 days, [4].…”

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“…The dermis in present study that lay under the epidermis, consisted of superficial layer that's called epider-mal papilla that continuous with sub epidermal layer , usually composed of bundles of collagenous fibers with fibrocytes. The horse dermis that subdivided into superficial dermis and the deep reticular dermis with large amount of collagen, elastin and reticular fibers bundle, the dermis are much thicker than epidermis, [3,5]. The dermis in porcine pig are subdivided into papillary layer and reticular layer, [7].…”

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Histological Study for Skin of Horse

Obayes¹

2023

Tikrit J. Pure Sci.

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The present study was done on skin of horse,samples are taken from six animals after anaesthetized the animals and slaughttered . Samples are taken from dorsal back area ,the collected tissues were fixed in 10% formalin for 24 hrs. tissue was prepared for light microscopic examination . the result showed skin of horse composed of Epidermis & dermis .epidermis are keratinized stratified squamous epithelium ,that divided into four cellular layers from the top (stratum corneum ,granulosum ,spinosum and basale), stratum basale are consist of simple cubiodal epithelium cells were rest on the basement membrane, Melanocytes cells are located in stratum basale .Dermis composed of papillary layer and dermal papilla. Papillary layer composed of bundles of collagenouse fibers with fibroblast. Primary hair follicles. primary hair follicle which surrounded by sweat glads and sebaceous glands. sweat glands was simple tubular gland which lined by simple cuboidal epithelium, the alveoli of sweat gland that surrounded by Myoepithelial cells. Sebeceous gland, Like double saccule, lined by simple cubiodal epithelium cells that contain fat dropletes. Primary hair follicle, that consist of Hair shaft in the center which represented the medulla, it was enclosed by cortical layer of stratified squamous epithelium.The primary & secondary hair follicle were attached to the smooth muscle bundles, was represented the arector pilli muscles. Small artery near the hair follicle that supply the oxygen and nutrient to the skin.

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Skin and Cutaneous Organs

Cited by 11 publications

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A Comparative Neuro-Histological Assessment of Gluteal Skin Thickness and Cutaneous Nociceptor Distribution in Horses and Humans

A Comparative Neuro-Histological Assessment of Gluteal Skin Thickness and Cutaneous Nociceptor Distribution in Horses and Humans

Effect of feline skin specimen preparation on postexcision and postfixation tissue shrinkage

Histological Study for Skin of Horse

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