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SUBMITTER: Tamai K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3081004 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tamai Katsuto K Yamazaki Takehiko T Chino Takenao T Ishii Masaru M Otsuru Satoru S Kikuchi Yasushi Y Iinuma Shin S Saga Kotaro K Nimura Keisuke K Shimbo Takashi T Umegaki Noriko N Katayama Ichiro I Miyazaki Jun-ichi J Takeda Junji J McGrath John A JA Uitto Jouni J Kaneda Yasufumi Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110404 16
The role of bone marrow cells in repairing ectodermal tissue, such as skin epidermis, is not clear. To explore this process further, this study examined a particular form of cutaneous repair, skin grafting. Grafting of full thickness wild-type mouse skin onto mice that had received a green fluorescent protein-bone marrow transplant after whole body irradiation led to an abundance of bone marrow-derived epithelial cells in follicular and interfollicular epidermis that persisted for at least 5 mo. ...[more]