Abstract:The skin is an essential barrier that protects organisms from the external environment. Despite recent advances in our understanding of skin homeostasis, the ways by which diverse cell types interact with each other to sustain this process is not fully understood. Challenges in addressing this question have been the inability to simultaneously follow behaviors of different cell types and to define their functional interactions in a live mammal. Skin epidermis is an ideal system because of its accessibility and… Show more
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