Macrophages induce AKT/β-catenin-dependent Lgr5+ stem cell activation and hair follicle regeneration through TNF

Hair can be regenerated after skin wounding. Here the authors show that inflammatory macrophages produce TNF that activates Wnt signalling in hair follicle stem cells to drive this hair regeneration after wound repair in mice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xusheng Wang, Haiyan Chen, Ruiyun Tian, Yiling Zhang, Marina S. Drutskaya, Chengmei Wang, Jianfeng Ge, Zhimeng Fan, Deqiang Kong, Xiaoxiao Wang, Ting Cai, Ying Zhou, Jingwen Wang, Jinmei Wang, Shan Wang, Zhihai Qin, Huanhuan Jia, Yue Wu, Jia Liu, Sergei A. Nedospasov, Edward E. Tredget, Mei Lin, Jianjun Liu, Yuyang Jiang, Yaojiong Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14091