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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Differentiation. 2017 Aug 11;97:9–22. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2017.08.002

Figure 15.

Figure 15

Molecular mechanism of stratified squamous differentiation of vaginal epithelium. BMP4, activin A and FGF7/10 produced by vagina mesenchyme induce expression of p63 in Müllerian epithelium, which specifies and promotes vaginal epithelial differentiation.