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Hair follicles: gatekeepers to the epidermis

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Substantial depletion of Langerhans cells leads to their replenishment by bone marrow–derived precursors that access the epidermis through hair follicles, a site of crucial chemokine production.

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Figure 1: Chemokines produced by hair follicles affect the recruitment of precursor cells after depletion of Langerhans cells.

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  1. William R. Heath and Scott N. Mueller are in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.,

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