Integrin β6-Deficient Mice Show Enhanced Keratinocyte Proliferation and Retarded Hair Follicle Regression after Depilation

Label-retaining cells reside in the bulge area of pilosebaceous unit: Implications for follicular stem cells, hair cycle, and skin carcinogenesis

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A Mechanism for Regulating Pulmonary Inflammation and Fibrosis: The Integrin αvβ6 Binds and Activates Latent TGF β1

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Inflammation, Fibrosis, Inflammatory Lung Disease +9

Defining the Epithelial Stem Cell Niche in Skin

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Label-retaining Cells, Skin Stem Cell, Dermatology +20

Stem cells in the hair follicle bulge contribute to wound repair but not to homeostasis of the epidermis

Mayumi Ito, Yaping Liu, Zaixin Yang et al. · Nature Medicine · 2005 · 1.3K citations

Skin Development, Developmental Biology, Medicine +11

Mice lacking Smad3 show accelerated wound healing and an impaired local inflammatory response

Gillian S. Ashcroft, Xiao Yang, Adam B. Glick et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 1999 · 909 citations

Inflammation, Cytokine, Immunology +10