Figure 1.

Anatomy of canine hair. (A): Dorsal view of canine haired skin. Skin is from an adult male castrated Dachshund. Representative image of canine haired skin. Note that each follicular unit has multiple hair shafts exiting through one follicular opening. (B): En face view of canine haired skin in (A) showing the anatomy of a compound hair (bracket). The primary hair (arrowhead) is prominent and surrounded by several smaller secondary hairs (e.g., arrow). (C): Dogs included in this study. Canine epidermal neural crest stem cells were isolated from all dogs.