Macrophages contribute to the cyclic activation of adult hair follicle stem cells.
Skin epithelial stem cells operate within a complex signaling milieu that orchestrates their lifetime regenerative properties. The question of whether and how immune cells impact on these stem cells within their niche is not well understood. Here we show that skin-resident macrophages decrease in nu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002002 |