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. 2007 May 17;447(7142):265-6.
doi: 10.1038/447265a.

Regenerative biology: new hair from healing wounds

Cheng-Ming Chuong
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Regenerative biology: new hair from healing wounds

Cheng-Ming Chuong. Nature. .

Abstract

In mammals, most wounds heal by repair, not regeneration. It now seems that, as they heal, open skin wounds in adult mice form new hair follicles that follow similar developmental paths to those of embryos.

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Figure 1. Formation of new hair in a healed wound
a, Ito and colleagues1 found that when a large open wound is generated in the skin of adult mice, re-epithelialization occurs. b, If the healed skin is larger than around 0.5 cm in diameter, new hair follicles originating from the epidermis form in the centre of the wound.
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