New hair from healing wounds

Cheng-Ming Chuong
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Cheng-Ming Chuong: Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. chuong@pathfinder.usc.edu

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7142, 265-266

Abstract: In mammals, most wounds heal by repair, not regeneration. It now seems that, as they heal, open skin wounds in adult mice form new hair follicles that follow similar developmental paths to those of embryos.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1038/447265a

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