Abstract
The pilosebaceous unit is named after pilus, the Latin for hair, and sebum, the Latin for grease, since it is made of up two components, a hair follicle and a sebaceous gland (Fig. 1). Its culture is important to the study of its diseases, including alopecia and acne; but its culture is also important to the study of skin epithelial stem cells because the epithelial cells of the outer root sheaths of the hair follicle are pluri-potential in their phenotype, and can re-epithelialize the denuded epidermis to heal wounds (1).
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Kealey, T., Philpott, M., Guy, R. (1997). Human Pilosebaceous Culture. In: Pollard, J.W., Walker, J.M. (eds) Basic Cell Culture Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 75. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-441-0:101
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