Locked and Loaded: Inflammation Training Prepares Skin Epithelial Stem Cells for Trauma.

Proserpio, Valentina; Oliviero, Salvatore; Donati, Giacomo · Cell Stem Cell · 2017

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Abstract

Memory of a trauma and how to cope with it is useful for acting rapidly in the event of a second traumatic incident. Recently, Naik et al. (2017) reported in Nature that skin epithelial stem cells have this ability by maintaining long-term chromatin features acquired during the first assault.

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