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Article: Hair follicle sheath progenitor cells express nestin.
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- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- October 13, 2003
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2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Like neural stem cells, hair follicle sheath progenitor cells express nestin.
"The intermediate filament protein, nestin, marks progenitor cells of the CNS," scientists in California explained. "Such CNS stem cells are selectively labeled by placing GFP under the control of the nestin regulatory sequences."
"During early anagen or growth phase of the hair follicle, nestin-expressing cells, marked by GFP fluorescence in nestin-GFP transgenic mice, appear in the permanent upper hair follicle immediately below the sebaceous glands in the follicle bulge. This is where stem cells for the hair follicle outer-root ...