March 2026 in “Plastic and Aesthetic Research” This review highlights that exosomes from adipose-derived stem cells, particularly those enriched with circ-Ash1l, can inhibit ferroptosis and reduce UVB-induced skin aging by delivering GPX4-promoting signals to damaged cells, thus offering a potential regenerative therapy for photoaged skin.
33 citations
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June 2017 in “Developmental Biology” This study found that local refinement of hair follicles into higher order patterns can occur without the core planar cell polarity system, but global alignment with body axes requires its function throughout development and regeneration.
3 citations
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May 2022 in “Oncogene” This study revealed that Vav2 and Vav3 play roles in regulating hair follicle bulge stem cells in normal conditions and cancer stem cell activation and remodeling in mice.
271 citations
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May 2019 in “Cells” This review discusses the therapeutic potential of MSC-derived secretomes for treating degenerative and inflammatory diseases, reporting no new clinical results but highlighting their proposed mechanisms and advantages over direct MSC transplantation.
71 citations
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January 2019 in “International journal of biological sciences” This study proposes the miR-22-5p-LEF1 axis as a novel pathway that may regulate hair follicle stem cell proliferation.
12 citations
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December 2019 in “International Journal of Molecular Medicine” This study found that human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCB-MSCs) significantly prevented hair loss induced by dexamethasone in a mouse model and enhanced cell proliferation in human hair follicle cells, suggesting a protective effect against stress-related hair loss.
December 2025 in “Scientific Reports” This study found that preconditioning human hair follicle-derived stem cells with valproic acid enhanced their survival and migration in ischemic-like conditions by activating autophagy and inhibiting the AKT/mTOR pathway, suggesting this approach could improve stem cell therapies for ischemic stroke.
17 citations
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December 2013 in “PLoS ONE” This study found that the postnatal thymus contains a population of mesenchymal stem cells that may help maintain functional thymic microenvironments.
January 2026 in “Open Life Sciences” This study found that exosomes derived from human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells enhanced stem cell proliferation and structural restoration in irradiated salivary glands of rats, with significant improvements observed by day 7, suggesting activation of the Wnt signaling pathway.
14 citations
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March 2020 in “Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology” This review discusses the flexibility and diversity of tissue stem cell systems, particularly focusing on the motility and ligand distribution of spermatogenic stem cells, without presenting new experimental results.
This study discovered that in *Drosophila*, knockdown of specific storage proteins in adipocytes decreased germline stem cell maintenance, implicating a role for these proteins in adult tissue regulation.
April 2017 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that anagen hair follicles can quickly regenerate after radiation damage by forming new progenitor cells outside the bulge, bypassing the need for telogen entry.
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February 2000 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Stem cells in developing hair follicles move to specific areas as they mature.
7 citations
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January 2020 in “PubMed” In this review, researchers highlight preclinical and clinical studies on stem cell-based therapies for hair loss, noting promising early findings but indicating that further robust clinical research is necessary to better understand their effectiveness, safety, and mechanisms.
6 citations
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March 2011 in “European Journal of Dermatology” This study observed that nestin-positive, K15-negative cells in hair follicles may play a crucial role in hair follicle regeneration in patients with alopecia areata.
2 citations
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July 2022 in “Stem cell research & therapy” This study found that a large number of pelage hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells can be efficiently isolated using two-step Ficoll Density Gradient Sedimentation, promoting hair growth by secreting exosomes in mice.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology” This review reports that transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms in epithelial stem cells guide their fate in the epidermis and hair follicles, crucial for skin homeostasis, but disruptions can lead to disease.
November 2025 in “Stem Cell Research & Therapy” This study suggests that human DSCCs may aid in hair follicle regeneration and reduce microinflammation, with potential applications in regenerative medicine evaluated through a new morphometric analysis.
February 2024 in “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open” This systematic review found that both cellular and acellular stem cell-based therapies are safe and able to improve hair regeneration and density in patients with androgenic alopecia, although some results may be temporary.
December 2023 in “Journal of Asia Pacific Aesthetic Sciences” This review discusses the potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived cytokines and growth factors as a promising alternative to conventional treatments for androgenetic alopecia, given their favourable outcomes in hair regrowth and follicle repair.
22 citations
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June 2013 in “International journal of molecular sciences” This review discusses the mechanisms governing epidermal stem and progenitor cell differentiation, emphasizing the balance necessary for maintaining skin barrier function, and reports no new experimental findings.
9 citations
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August 2015 in “Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine” In this study, human dermal stem/progenitor cell-derived conditioned medium was found to promote hair regrowth in mice, possibly through effects on the Wnt/β-catenin pathway.
47 citations
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May 2012 in “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology” This article reviews the generation of complex integument patterns through genetic, chemical, and environmental influences, with applications in tissue engineering, but reports no new experimental results.
43 citations
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February 2008 in “Journal of cutaneous pathology” This study revealed that during fetal development, MITF and Mart-1 expressing melanocytes progress from the dermis to the epidermis and hair follicles, with MITF possibly marking follicular stem cells.
28 citations
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February 2019 in “Genes” This review discusses the regulation and dynamics of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in development, pluripotency, and cancer, highlighting potential mechanisms and future research directions, but reports no new results.
330 citations
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December 2009 in “Cell stem cell” This study suggests that skin-derived precursors from Sox2(+) hair follicle dermal cells have the potential to function as dermal stem cells, supporting hair morphogenesis, dermal maintenance, and wound-healing.
253 citations
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March 1994 in “Developmental dynamics” This study suggests that programmed cell death plays a crucial role in shaping the structure of the human epidermis and its appendages during development.
116 citations
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August 2010 in “Nature” Scientists turned rat thymus cells into stem cells that can help repair skin and hair.
59 citations
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February 2012 in “Journal of Dermatological Science” This review discusses the multiple layers of environmental controls on hair stem cell homeostasis and suggests that targeting these layers could offer safer regenerative medicine therapies without directly using stem cells.
12 citations
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March 2021 in “Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine” Exosomes from stem cells might help treat hair loss.