Healing takes nerve.

Scott-Solomon, Emily; Shwartz, Yulia; Hsu, Ya-Chieh · Cell Stem Cell · 2021

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Abstract

Epidermal stem cells display remarkable capacities to restore the barrier upon skin injury. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Huang et al. (2021) use innovative high-resolution intravital imaging to identify a vital function of sensory nerves in regulating a subset of epidermal stem cells for wound repair.

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