February 2026 in “Frontiers in Medical Technology” This review discusses current knowledge of keratinocyte stem cell dynamics, including their regenerative roles and potential applications beyond wound healing, but presents no new clinical findings.
2 citations
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April 2021 in “International Journal of Cosmetic Science” This study found that a sunscreen with oxothiazolidine and δ-tocopheryl glucoside provided complementary oxidative protection, with immediate but brief effects from oxothiazolidine and prolonged effects from the slower-absorbing δ-tocopheryl glucoside.
December 2025 in “Advanced Healthcare Materials” This study introduces a spherical skin model that effectively mimics key features of human skin, offering a scalable and rapid alternative for non-animal dermatological and cosmetic testing.
62 citations
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February 2016 in “ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces” This study found that 3D microtissue models of dermal papilla cells can enhance the ability to induce hair-follicle neogenesis in vivo, offering potential for controlled cell production in follicle regeneration.
April 2023 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” In this study, researchers found that the protein eIF4E is crucial for keratinocyte proliferation in psoriasis, suggesting it as a potential treatment target for the condition.
April 2018 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” In laboratory models of human skin, this study found that treating with resveratrol significantly increased glutathione levels, potentially enhancing the skin's antioxidant defenses.
August 1994 in “Toxicology in Vitro” This study standardized a reproducible three-dimensional human skin model for testing skin tumor promoters, using methods that do not require human skin sourcing.
15 citations
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October 2014 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” This study suggests that erlotinib exacerbates inflammation in a mouse model of skin disease and that IL-1 inhibition could mitigate skin-related side effects of EGFR inhibitors.
July 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” The new skin organoid system effectively mimics human skin for studying its functions, injuries, and diseases.
32 citations
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August 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” In vitro skin models are improving but still need more innovation to fully replicate human skin.
2 citations
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January 2014 in “Journal of Cytology & Histology” In a mouse model, this study found that LAM/TSC cells invaded the uterus and increased angiogenesis, while anti-EGFR antibody and rapamycin effectively reduced cell presence and blood vessel proliferation.
164 citations
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February 2010 in “Journal of Cell Science” This study demonstrates that stem cells from human foreskins, which lack hair follicles, can differentiate into melanocytes and migrate to the epidermis, potentially altering our understanding of pigmentation disorders.
This study used an ex vivo human skin model to show that tropical conditions disrupt skin homeostasis, resulting in epidermal thickening and junctional flattening, and found that Kombucha tea extract may help preserve skin structure under such stress.
November 2025 in “Bioengineering” In this study, researchers used a 3D printing technique to spatially pattern human dermal papilla cell spheroids in a collagen matrix, enhancing skin and hair regeneration in a mouse model, with notable upregulation of key genes for hair follicle formation compared to traditional cell cultures.
1 citations
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May 2024 in “Journal of Dermatological Science” In this study, KC-AD-MSCs were found to increase COL7 deposition and anchoring fibril formation at the dermal-epidermal junction in a RDEB mouse model, suggesting potential for improving skin integrity in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa patients.
July 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” A single medium, PRIME AIRLIFT, supports better human hair follicle formation in grafts.
9 citations
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May 2020 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” This study identifies novel subpopulations of human epidermal melanocytes and specific transcriptional programs that differ from model organisms, providing insights into melanoma dedifferentiation.
2 citations
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May 1985 in “Environmental Health Perspectives” This report examines the mechanisms by which TCDD affects human epidermal and carcinoma cells, aiming to create a risk assessment model for halogenated aromatic compounds, but presents no new clinical results.
34 citations
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June 2008 in “In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal” This study established a new cell line from human hair follicle stem cells that maintains stem cell properties and differentiation capabilities, providing a useful in vitro model for stem cell research.
89 citations
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March 1996 in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” This study found that homozygous mutant mice with a hypomorphic CD18 mutation developed a chronic inflammatory skin disease resembling human psoriasis, potentially implicating additional genetic factors in disease susceptibility.
36 citations
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March 2011 in “Nature Communications” This study found that TSC2-null fibroblast cells from TSC skin hamartomas can induce hair follicle formation and hamartomatous changes in keratinocytes, with active mTOR signaling observable in a mouse xenograft model.
28 citations
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June 2020 in “ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering” This study found that a novel ECM patch combining human fibroblast-derived matrix and PVA hydrogel, seeded with human mesenchymal stem cells, significantly improved wound healing and tissue regeneration in a mouse model.
2 citations
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January 2019 in “Methods in molecular biology” This protocol demonstrates that pharmacological inhibition of TGF-β signaling can enhance the proliferative capacity of mouse and human keratinocytes, facilitating their use in skin research and graft preparation.
20 citations
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March 2019 in “Nutrients” This study found that Rumex japonicus extract may help reduce symptoms of atopic dermatitis by inhibiting inflammatory responses in both cell cultures and a mouse model.
127 citations
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November 2010 in “Pigment cell & melanoma research” This article discusses the challenges in hair follicle pigmentation research compared to epidermal melanocytes and highlights the limitations of relying on mouse models, but reports no new experimental findings.
18 citations
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January 1994 in “Skin Pharmacology and Physiology” This study observed that in vitro cocultures of hair follicle cells with dermal fibroblasts or hair papilla cells enhanced proliferation and differentiation of outer root sheath cells but did not mimic hair-type differentiation.
6 citations
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June 2024 in “Biofabrication” This study used digital-light-processing bioprinting to create a 3D skin-on-a-chip model with a miniaturized vascular network to closely study immune cell interactions similar to real human skin, demonstrating the potential to analyze immune-T cell trafficking influenced by skin signals.
46 citations
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September 2013 in “PLOS ONE” This study identified thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) as a stimulant of wound healing in both frog and human skin models, suggesting it as a potential neuroendocrine wound repair promoter.
5 citations
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September 2019 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” In this study, researchers identified at least four distinct basal stem cell populations in the human interfollicular epidermis, each crucial for maintaining epidermal communication and homeostasis.
51 citations
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August 2013 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study demonstrated that cultured human dermal papilla cells can induce full hair follicle formation when combined with neonatal foreskin keratinocytes in a grafted dermal-epidermal construct on mice.