Epidermal stem cells: an update on their potential in regenerative medicine

Basal Cell Carcinomas Arise from Hair Follicle Stem Cells in Ptch1+/− Mice

(2011) Grace Ying Wang et al.   CANCER CELL

Yap1 Acts Downstream of α-Catenin to Control Epidermal Proliferation

(2011) Karin Schlegelmilch et al.   CELL

Nerve-Derived Sonic Hedgehog Defines a Niche for Hair Follicle Stem Cells Capable of Becoming Epidermal Stem Cells

(2011) Isaac Brownell et al.   Cell Stem Cell

TCF/Lef1 activity controls establishment of diverse stem and progenitor cell compartments in mouse epidermis

(2011) Monika Petersson et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The bulge area is the origin of nestin-expressing pluripotent stem cells of the hair follicle

(2011) Aisada Uchugonova et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Nestin-positive hair follicle pluripotent stem cells can promote regeneration of impinged peripheral nerve injury

(2011) Yasuyuki AMOH et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Direct generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from mouse and human fibroblasts

(2011) Massimiliano Caiazzo et al.   NATURE

Direct lineage conversions: unnatural but useful?

(2011) Thomas Vierbuchen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ectopic PDX-1 Expression Directly Reprograms Human Keratinocytes along Pancreatic Insulin-Producing Cells Fate

(2011) Michal Mauda-Havakuk et al.   PLoS One

Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells from the Adult Human Spinal Cord Are Multipotent and Self-Renewing and Differentiate after Transplantation

(2011) Andrea J. Mothe et al.   PLoS One

Increase developmental plasticity of human keratinocytes with gene suppression

(2011) S. C. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct conversion of human fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons

(2011) U. Pfisterer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wounding mobilizes hair follicle stem cells to form tumors

(2011) S. Y. Wong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wounding enhances epidermal tumorigenesis by recruiting hair follicle keratinocytes

(2011) M. Kasper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Functional Cardiomyocytes by Defined Factors

(2010) Masaki Ieda et al.   CELL

Acclimatized Induction Reveals the Multipotency of Adult Human Undifferentiated Keratinocytes

(2010) Weidong Han et al.   Cellular Reprogramming

Enhanced Reprogramming and Cardiac Differentiation of Human Keratinocytes Derived from Plucked Hair Follicles, Using a Single Excisable Lentivirus

(2010) Atara Novak et al.   Cellular Reprogramming

Differential sensitivity of epidermal cell subpopulations to β-catenin-induced ectopic hair follicle formation

(2010) Christopher M. Baker et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Maintaining Cell Identity through Global Control of Genomic Organization

(2010) Gioacchino Natoli   IMMUNITY

The advantages of hair follicle pluripotent stem cells over embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells for regenerative medicine

(2010) Yasuyuki Amoh et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Epithelial Cells Promote Fibroblast Activation via IL-1α in Systemic Sclerosis

(2010) Nima Aden et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks

(2010) Eric H. Davidson   NATURE

Identification of the cell lineage at the origin of basal cell carcinoma

(2010) Khalil Kass Youssef et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Efficient reprogramming of adult neural stem cells to monocytes by ectopic expression of a single gene

(2010) M. Forsberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lgr6 Marks Stem Cells in the Hair Follicle That Generate All Cell Lineages of the Skin

(2010) H. J. Snippert et al.   SCIENCE

Islet neogenesis from the constitutively nestin expressing human umbilical cord matrix derived mesenchymal stem cells

(2010) Sachin S. Kadam et al.   Islets

Lrig1 Expression Defines a Distinct Multipotent Stem Cell Population in Mammalian Epidermis

(2009) Kim B. Jensen et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Epigenetic reprogramming and induced pluripotency

(2009) K. Hochedlinger et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Directed transdifferentiation of mouse mesoderm to heart tissue by defined factors

(2009) Jun K. Takeuchi et al.   NATURE

Tcf3 and Tcf4 are essential for long-term homeostasis of skin epithelia

(2009) Hoang Nguyen et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Direct Reprogramming of Terminally Differentiated Mature B Lymphocytes to Pluripotency

(2008) Jacob Hanna et al.   CELL

Hair Follicle Stem Cells Are Specified and Function in Early Skin Morphogenesis

(2008) Jonathan A. Nowak et al.   Cell Stem Cell

A distinct population of clonogenic and multipotent murine follicular keratinocytes residing in the upper isthmus

(2008) U. B. Jensen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

SOX9 expression is a general marker of basal cell carcinoma and adnexal-related neoplasms

(2008) Valérie P.I. Vidal et al.   JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS PATHOLOGY

Cutaneous cancer stem cell maintenance is dependent on β-catenin signalling

(2008) Ilaria Malanchi et al.   NATURE

In vivo reprogramming of adult pancreatic exocrine cells to β-cells

(2008) Qiao Zhou et al.   NATURE

Efficient and rapid generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human keratinocytes

(2008) Trond Aasen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Lgr5 marks cycling, yet long-lived, hair follicle stem cells

(2008) Viljar Jaks et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Generation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Mouse Liver and Stomach Cells

(2008) T. Aoi et al.   SCIENCE

The Skin: A Home to Multiple Classes of Epithelial Progenitor Cells

(2008) Xiaohong Yan et al.   Stem Cell Reviews and Reports