Cyclic Hair Loss and Regrowth in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing an Intermediate Filament Gene

    May 1990 in “ The EMBO Journal ”
    Barry C. Powell, G.E. Rogers
    Studysummary Mice with extra sheep genes had hair that fell out and regrew in cycles.
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