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Review
. 2013 Aug 30;14(9):17861-80.
doi: 10.3390/ijms140917861.

Epidermal stem cells and their epigenetic regulation

Qi Shen  1 , Hongchuan Jin, Xian Wang
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Review

Epidermal stem cells and their epigenetic regulation

Qi Shen et al. Int J Mol Sci. .

Abstract

Stem cells play an essential role in embryonic development, cell differentiation and tissue regeneration. Tissue homeostasis in adults is maintained by adult stem cells resident in the niches of different tissues. As one kind of adult stem cell, epidermal stem cells have the potential to generate diversified types of progeny cells in the skin. Although its biology is still largely unclarified, epidermal stem cells are widely used in stem cell research and regenerative medicine given its easy accessibility and pluripotency. Despite the same genome, cells within an organism have different fates due to the epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In this review, we will briefly discuss the current understanding of epigenetic modulation in epidermal stem cells.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
A cross section of the human skin. Epidermal stem cells are found in the basal layer and in the bulge region.
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