Emerging interactions between skin stem cells and their niches

Nature Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 847-856

  Hsu, Ya Chieh ^a,b   Li, Lishi ^a   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Harvard University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT STEM CELLS; AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SKIN; STEM CELL NICHE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84905730523     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3643     Document Type: Review

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