Fate Before Function: Specification of the Hair Follicle Niche Occurs Prior to its Formation and Is Progenitor Dependent
Ka‐Wai Mok, Nivedita Saxena, Nicholas Heitman, Laura Grisanti, Devika Srivastava, Mauro J. Muraro, Tina Jacob, Rachel Sennett, Zichen Wang, Yutao Su, Lu M. Yang, Avi Ma’ayan, David M. Ornitz, Maria Kasper, Michael Rendl
The paper shows that hair follicle niche precursors are specified before niche formation and requires FGF20 from progenitors.
Developmental Cell · Dec 27, 2018Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology