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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2013 Oct 6;502(7472):513–518. doi: 10.1038/nature12602

Figure 3. Bulge and hair germ are mutually dispensable for hair regeneration.

Figure 3

a) Scheme of the laser ablation experiment. b) Sequential snapshots of hair follicles immediately or a week after bulge and hair germ ablation. The red dotted line represents the ablated region. c) Quantification of the regenerative capacity of follicles with ablated dermal papilla, bulge and hair germ, respectively (n = 30, 32, 28 follicles, respectively in 9 mice). d) Example of hair growth impairment due to the physical separation of the epithelium from the mesenchymal dermal papilla after ablation. e) Example of hair follicle growth initiation before full niche recovery. f) Scheme of hair follicle niche responses after laser ablation. Scale bars: 50μm.