Multipotent nestin-positive, keratin-negative hair-follicle bulge stem cells can form neurons

March 2005 in “ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ”

Yasuyuki Amoh, Lingna Li, Kensei Katsuoka, Sheldon Penman, Robert M. Hoffman

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