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Manipulation of outer root sheath cell survival perturbs the hair-growth cycle.
The EMBO journal - 1 Jul 1999
Pena J C, Kelekar A, Fuchs E V, Thompson C B
Abstract excerpt
Transgenic mice that overexpress the anti-apoptotic gene bcl-xL under the control of the keratin 14 promoter have significantly shorter hair than non-transgenic littermates. The deficit in hair length correlated with a decrease in the duration of anagen, the growth phase of the hair cycle. A prolongation in telogen, the resting phase of the hair cycle, was also observed in adult animals. In the developing hair...
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