Chapter 8:: Nail

Question 1

Nails belong to one of the skin appendages and are located on the __________ of each finger and toe in the human body

Answer 1

distal phalanx

Question 2

Through the nail plate, the whit- ish crescent-shaped base is called the _______.

Answer 2

lunula

Question 3

The nail matrix is a morphological continuation of the ______ that attach to each other through the IZ wrapping around the proximal end of the nail plate

Answer 3

NPF cells

Question 4

To locate stem cells in nails, Takeo and coworkers used a ____________.

Answer 4

transgenic mouse lineage tracing system

Question 5

______ is a molecular marker specific to the NSCs, giving rise to the nail plate and contributing to the growth of nail over time.

Answer 5

Lgr6

Question 6

Recently, some cellular and molecular components of the digit regeneration process have been discovered by ______

Answer 6

Takeo and associates