Hair Follicle Stem Cells: Their Location, Role in Hair Cycle, and Involvement in Skin Tumor Formation

July 1993 in “ The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology ”

Robert M. Lavker, Stanley J. Miller, Caroline Wilson, George Cotsarelis, Zhi Wei, Jing Yang, Tung Tien Sun

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