Interaction of cambial dermal cells (fibroblasts) and epidermis in morphofunctional area of mouse skin.

Epidermis and dermis form an integral morphofunctional area, where cambial cells proliferate and their first-division daughter cells differentiate. An important feature of this area is different rates of the development of daughter cells (fibroblasts) in the dermis and epidermis, which is greater in the epidermis. This asymmetry results in the prevalence of first epidermal daughter cells and, hence, their effect on cambial cells, and then of stromal daughter cells and their effects on cambial cells.

Structural organization of the basal layer and morphofunctional characteristics of mouse epidermal cambial cells.

The basal layer of mouse skin epidermis consists of special structures - rosettes functionally arranged in zones including about 20 rosettes. The rosette contains a central cambial cell; after division of this cell the mother cell remains in the center of the rosette and the daughter cell migrated to the center of a free rosette. The mother and daughter cells are dipole cells (sources of electric field).