Sentences with phrase «for hair follicle stem cells»

The bulge region is believed to be the storage area for hair follicle stem cells.

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Prof. Jean - Christophe Marine (VIB - KU Leuven): «Unexpectedly, this ability to divide and contribute to melanoma development contrasted with the activities of other cell populations, such as melanocyte stem cells found in hair follicles, for instance.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fistem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the ficell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fiStem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fiCell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

«By analyzing mice with the WNT10A mutation, as well as tissues from human patients with WNT10A mutations, we found that WNT10A regulates the proliferation, but not the maintenance, of stem cells in hair follicles,» said Sarah Millar, PhD, vice chair for Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology.

For example, in both the blood - cell - producing and the hair - follicle niches, different stem cell types need to coordinate their individual production.

Scientists already knew that stem cells contained in a bulge area of hair follicles are involved in making hair and that SCF is important for pigmented cells, said Dr. Le, a member of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

«Engineering blood vessels for bypass surgery, promoting the formation of new blood vessels or regenerating new skin tissue using stem cells obtained from the most accessible source — hair follicles — is a real possibility,» said Stelios T. Andreadis, Ph.D., co-author of the paper in Cardiovascular Research and associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.