Nobuko Arakawa

From hair to heart: nestin-expressing hair-follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells differentiate to beating cardiac muscle cells

Masateru Yashiro, Sumiyuki Mii, Ryoichi Aki et al. · Cell Cycle · 2015 · 64 citations · Full text

Adult Stem Cell, Neural Stem Cell, Nestin-expressing Hair-follicle-associated Pluripotent +21

Isoproterenol directs hair follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells to differentiate <i>in vitro</i> to cardiac muscle cells which can be induced to form beating heart-muscle tissue sheets

Aiko Yamazaki, Masateru Yashiro, Sumiyuki Mii et al. · Cell Cycle · 2016 · 33 citations · Full text

Heart-muscle Tissue Sheets, Adult Stem Cell, Cardiac Progenitor Cells +21

Cryopreservation of the Hair Follicle Maintains Pluripotency of Nestin-Expressing Hair Follicle-Associated Pluripotent Stem Cells

Satoshi Kajiura, Sumiyuki Mii, Ryoichi Aki et al. · Tissue Engineering Part C Methods · 2015 · 28 citations

Hair-follicle-associated pluripotent stem cells derived from cryopreserved intact human hair follicles sustain multilineage differentiation potential

Koya Obara, Natsuko Tohgi, Sumiyuki Mii et al. · Scientific Reports · 2019 · 23 citations · Full text

Implanted hair-follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells encapsulated in polyvinylidene fluoride membrane cylinders promote effective recovery of peripheral nerve injury

Aiko Yamazaki, Kohya Obara, Natsuko Tohgi et al. · Cell Cycle · 2017 · 20 citations · Full text

Tissue Engineering, Engineering, Peripheral Nerve Injury +18