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Hair Follicle Development cartoon

Postnatal skin showing a hair follicle in the growth phase. Biological processes occurring in the skin are listed and stem cell locations are indicated.

Legend
  • Dark blue arrows - indicate the movements of stem and matrix cell progeny.
  • Pale blue arrows - indicate stem cell self-renewal.
  • Pink - epidermis and hair follicle outer root sheath
  • Yellow - inner root sheath
  • Green - matrix
  • Red - hair follicle dermal papilla
  • Light brown - hair shaft precursors
  • Darker brown - hair shaft
  • Violet circles - stem cells
  • Black ovals - dermal fibroblasts.


Hair Development: Follicle stages | Follicle Stem Cells | Skin structure | Mouse follicle histology | Hair Development

Reference

<pubmed>16277556</pubmed>| PLoS Biol.


Copyright

© 2005 Sarah E. Millar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Millar SE (2005) An Ideal Society? Neighbors of Diverse Origins Interact to Create and Maintain Complex Mini-Organs in the Skin. PLoS Biol 3(11): e372. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030372

Image cropped and resized from Figure 1 panel B.

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