July 2025 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Wnt signaling helps regenerate hair follicles in wounds by reducing skin cell sensitivity to mechanical stress.
February 2025 in “Science Advances” This study demonstrates that Wnt signaling plays a crucial mechanoregulatory role in skin regeneration by influencing cellular responses to substrate rigidity, which promotes hair follicle regeneration in the wound-induced hair neogenesis model.
April 2023 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that occlusive dressings on mouse wounds eliminated wound-induced hair neogenesis by upregulating mechanotransduction, which promotes fibrosis, and suppressing Wnt signaling involved in regeneration.
October 2025 in “Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology” This study synthesizes knowledge of how dendritic cell signals, epithelial integrins, and fibroblast activity converge on TGF-β1 to maintain or disrupt skin healing, contrasting normal and fibrotic scar formation and suggesting possible integrin and immune-targeted treatments for skin fibrosis.