Isolation of a Novel Population of Multipotent Adult Stem Cells from Human Hair Follicles

June 2006 in “ American Journal Of Pathology ”

Hong Yu, Fang Dong, Suresh Kumar, Ling Li, Thiennga K. Nguyen, Géza Ács, Meenhard Herlyn, Xiaowei Xu

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