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DETAILED information about the structure of a cuticular layer of flat overlapping cells, covering animal hairs and wools, is of great technological importance. Its ratchet-like character is responsible for the greater frictional resistance to motion in the tip to root than the root to tip direction; and is one of the causes of felting.
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SIKORSKI, J., SIMPSON, W. Electron Microscope Studies of the Chemical Reactivity in Keratin Cuticle. Nature 182, 1235–1236 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821235a0
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