Regenerating the skin: A task for the heterogeneous stem cell pool and surrounding niche

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 737-748

  Solanas, Guiomar ^a   Benitah, Salvador Aznar ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 15; ENDOTHELIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 6; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DERMIS; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMIS CELL; FIBROBLAST; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MUSCLE; NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SKIN; SKIN STEM CELL; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SWEAT GLAND; TISSUE REGENERATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84886283477     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3675     Document Type: Review

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