Glycoconjugate Expression of Cells of Human Anagen Hair Follicles During Keratinization

    September 1990 in “ The Anatomical Record ”
    Jun Ohno, Kimie Fukuyama, William L. Epstein
    Studysummary This study found that distinct glycoconjugate expression patterns in human hair follicle cells suggest complex carbohydrate metabolism, revealing a unique sugar moiety in outer root sheath cells not present in other keratinocytes.
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    Research cited in this study 4

    1. Keratins of the Human Hair Follicle: Hyperproliferative Keratins Consistently Expressed in Outer Root Sheath Cells In Vivo and In Vitro Differentiation · 1987
    2. Acidic and Basic Hair/Nail (Hard) Keratins: Their Colocalization in Upper Cortical and Cuticle Cells of the Human Hair Follicle and Their Relationship to Soft Keratins ˜The œjournal of cell biology/˜The œJournal of cell biology · 1986
    3. The Complement of Native Alpha-Keratin Polypeptides of Hair-Forming Cells: A Subset of Eight Polypeptides That Differ from Epithelial Cytokeratins Differentiation · 1986
    4. Cell Differentiation in Human Anagen Hair and Hair Follicles Studied with Anti-Hair Keratin Monoclonal Antibodies Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 1986

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