The Touch Dome Defines an Epidermal Niche Specialized for Mechanosensory Signaling

Cell Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1759-1765

  Doucet, YanneS ^a,b   Woo, Seung Hyun ^a,c   Ruiz, MarlonE ^a   Owens, DavidM ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 17;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; GLABROUS SKIN; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE;

ANIMALS; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MERKEL CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; STEM CELL NICHE; TOUCH;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879796428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.04.026     Document Type: Article

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