cells is largely specific to particular organs or tissues. Thus they are used clinically to identify the cell of origin of various human tumors.

Naming

The term cytokeratin began to be used in the late 1970s, when the protein subunits of keratin intermediate filaments inside cells were first being identified and characterized. In 2006 a new systematic nomenclature for mammalian keratins was created,

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