Keratinocyte stem cells: Friends and foe
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Carlo Pincelli; Alessandra Marconi
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Skin and its appendages provide a protective barrier against the assaults of the environment. To perform its role, epidermis undergoes an ongoing renewal through a balance of proliferation and differentiation/apoptosis called homeostasis. Keratinocyte stem cells reside in a special micr