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Comment
. 2012 Jul 19;13(8):715-7.
doi: 10.1038/ni.2374.

Hair follicles: gatekeepers to the epidermis

William R Heath  1 , Scott N Mueller
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Hair follicles: gatekeepers to the epidermis

William R Heath et al. Nat Immunol. .

Abstract

Substantial depletion of Langerhans cells leads to their replenishment by bone marrow–derived precursors that access the epidermis through hair follicles, a site of crucial chemokine production.

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