Corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulates the in situ generation of mast cells from precursors in the human hair follicle mesenchyme

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 995-1004

  Ito, Natsuho ^a   Sugawara, Koji ^b,c   Bodó, Eniko ^d   Takigawa, Masahiro ^a   Van Beek, Nina ^b   Ito, Taisuke ^a   Paus, Ralf ^b,e  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASE;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MESENCHYME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCALP; SKIN EPITHELIUM; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION;

AGED; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; SCALP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASES;

EID: 77949539634     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.387     Document Type: Article

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