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Cornification is the process where living skin cells die to create a protective barrier, and problems with it can cause skin diseases.
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The goat hair keratin gene is very similar to sheep's and is strongly expressed in goat hair follicles.
Trichohyalin, a protein from pig tongue, was purified and found to have a filamentous structure.
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