Treatment of alopecia by transplantation of hair follicle stem cells and dermal papilla cells encapsulated in alginate gels

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1014-1016

  Zhao, Jie ^a   Liu, Liang Qi ^a   Wang, Ying Juan ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Geng, Wen Xin ^a   Wei, Jing ^a   Li, Li Wen ^a   Chen, Fu Lin ^a  

^a Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DONOR SITE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCHYME; MICROENCAPSULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR; SKIN CELL; STEM CELL;

ALGINATES; ALOPECIA; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DERMIS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HAIR FOLLICLE; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 40849116797     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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