Hair Follicle Stem Cells as a Skin-Organizing Signaling Center During Adult Homeostasis

    April 2021 in “ The EMBO Journal
    Kefei Nina Li, Tudorita Tumbar
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    TLDR Hair follicle stem cells help maintain skin health and could improve skin replacement therapies.
    The document "Hair follicle stem cells as a skin‐organizing signaling center during adult homeostasis" discusses the significant role of hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) in maintaining skin health and hair growth. HFSCs are found to act as a signaling center, interacting with other skin cells and coordinating their activities. They also modulate the organization of the skin's vascular niche, affecting hair growth and wound healing. HFSCs interact with various niche components, including nerves, muscles, melanocytes, and mesenchymal cells, and produce extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins crucial for hair follicle maintenance and regeneration. The document concludes that understanding the interactions between HFSCs and their niches could inform clinical and bioengineering fields aiming to build complete and functional 3D organotypic cultures for skin replacement therapies, and could have significant therapeutic value in treating diseases and facilitating tissue engineering. However, more research is needed to understand these complex interactions.
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