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Cardiovascular Research Advance Access originally published online on May 9, 2008
Cardiovascular Research 2008 79(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/cvr/cvn117
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One more reason to save your hair

Dimitri Scholz*,{dagger} and Suleyman Ergun

Department of Anatomy, University Clinic Essen, 55 Hufelanstrasse, D-45147 Essen, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 353 716 6958. E-mail address: dimitri.scholz@ucd.ie

This editorial refers to ‘Contractile smooth muscle cells derived from hair-follicle stem cells’ by J.Y. Liu et al., pp. 24–33,6 this issue.

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Hair follicles are self-renewing structures that cycle and reconstitute themselves throughout life because they contain keratinocyte stem cells.1 After new evidence has been presented about hair follicle cells differentiating into adipogenic, osteogenic, chondrogenic, myogenic, neuronal, and glial2–5 lineages, the question arises whether these cell possess other abilities and whether they are pluri- or even omnipotent. In this context, the work by Liu et al.6 in this issue of Cardiovascular Research inserts an important piece into the hair follicle puzzle. It presents clear evidence for the conversion . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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