Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2017 Aug 9:6:e30249.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.30249.

Regional differences

Zhou Yu  1   2 , Ting Chen  2
Affiliations
Comment

Regional differences

Zhou Yu et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The skin is a complex landscape containing regions in which hair follicles exhibit different types of behavior.

Keywords: computational biology; developmental biology; hair follicle; mouse; pattern formation; skin; stem cells; systems biology; tissue regeneration.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests declared.

Comment on

References

    1. Chang HY. Anatomic demarcation of cells: Genes to patterns. Science. 2009;326:1206–1207. doi: 10.1126/science.1175686. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Chuong CM, Yeh CY, Jiang TX, Widelitz R. Module-based complexity formation: Periodic patterning in feathers and hairs. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology. 2013;2:97–112. doi: 10.1002/wdev.74. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Donati G, Watt FM. Stem cell heterogeneity and plasticity in epithelia. Cell Stem Cell. 2015;16:465–476. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.04.014. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Fuchs E, Chen T. A matter of life and death: Self-renewal in stem cells. EMBO Reports. 2013;14:39–48. doi: 10.1038/embor.2012.197. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Fuchs E. Epithelial skin biology: Three decades of developmental biology, a hundred questions answered and a thousand new ones to address. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2016;116:357–374. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.11.033. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources