New Hair From Healing Wounds

    May 2007 in “ Nature ”
    Cheng‐Ming Chuong
    Studysummary This study suggests that wounding skin in adult mice can trigger new hair follicle formation, indicating mammalian skin may have greater regenerative capacity than previously thought.
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    1. Wnt-Dependent De Novo Hair Follicle Regeneration in Adult Mouse Skin After Wounding Nature · 2007
    2. Scratching the Surface of Skin Development Nature · 2007
    3. Stem Cells in the Hair Follicle Bulge Contribute to Wound Repair but Not to Homeostasis of the Epidermis Nature Medicine · 2005
    4. Long-Term Renewal of Hair Follicles from Clonogenic Multipotent Stem Cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2005
    5. The Formation of Vellus Hair Follicles from Human Adult Epidermis Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 1956

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