Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals that Differentiation and Spatial Signatures Shape Epidermal and Hair Follicle Heterogeneity

Cell Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 221-237.e9

  Joost, Simon ^a   Zeisel, Amit ^a   Jacob, Tina ^a   Sun, Xiaoyan ^a   La Manno, Gioele ^a   Lönnerberg, Peter ^a   Linnarsson, Sten ^a   Kasper, Maria ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 17; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 6; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; KERATIN; KERATIN 75; RNA; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDERMAL STEM CELL; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMEOSTASIS; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMEOSTASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84992029435     PISSN: 24054712     EISSN: 24054720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.08.010     Document Type: Article

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