Altering cell fate: from thymus epithelium to skin stem cells

Ganna Bilousova; Dennis R Roop

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2010.09.007

Altering cell fate: from thymus epithelium to skin stem cells

Cell Stem Cell. 2010 Oct 8;7(4):419-20. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.09.007.

Authors

Ganna Bilousova¹, Dennis R Roop

Affiliation

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.

PMID: 20887943
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.09.007

Abstract

In a recent study in Nature, Bonfanti et al. (2010) report that the skin microenvironment can convert thymic epithelial cells into skin stem cells. This finding suggests that somatic stem cells may have a broader potential for lineage switching than previously thought.

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