Epidermal stem cells of the skin

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2006, Pages 339-373

  Blanpain, Cédric ^a   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bmp; Cancer; Cell fate determination; Hair follicle; Multipotency; Self renewal; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL FATE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; EPIDERMIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN EPITHELIUM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33751170474     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.22.010305.104357     Document Type: Review

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