title: Culture of dispersed hair follicle cells from plucked out hairs without a feeder layer.
abstract: Dispersed hair follicle cells from plucked out hairs have been successfully grown on collagen type IV without a biological feeder layer. The optimal calcium concentration for the culture of these cells was also studied and decided to be 0.3-0.5 mM. In this calcium range and on collagen type IV, colony formation and colony growth were best and big colonies with a paving stone-like cell arrangement were formed. The availability of such cultured cells for the treatment of missing skin is proposed instead of cultured epidermal keratinocytes which have been commonly used for wound dressing.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arase
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuwana
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sadamoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shigemi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeda
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003094:Collagen; D006197:Hair / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen; D002118:Calcium