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Bone morphogenetic protein 5 regulates the number of keratinocyte stem cells from the skin of mice.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Mar 2011
Kangsamaksin Thaned, Morris Rebecca J
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Understanding keratinocyte stem cell regulation is important in understanding the pathogenesis of wound healing and nonmelanoma skin cancer. We previously used a sensitive and quantitative assay for in vitro keratinocyte colony formation and mapped the keratinocyte stem cell locus (Ksc1) on mouse chromosome 9. Examination of the candidate genes in this locus disclosed a sequence variant in the gene for bone...
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