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Culture of Adult Human Skin:in vitro Growth and Keratinization of Epidermal Cells

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ADULT human skin has been successfully cultured by several methods, but progress has been slow because the cells in the outgrowth have never been satisfactorily identified. Light microscopy has shown that fibroblasts grown on glass surfaces may assume a pavement-like appearance and mimic the growth pattern of epithelial cells1. To avoid this, several investigators have attempted to eliminate fibroblasts from growing cultures1–4. In none of these experiments was it conclusively shown that growing cells are epithelial and undergo keratinization, although these assumptions appear to be valid.

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FRIEDMAN-KIEN, A., MORRILL, S., PROSE, P. et al. Culture of Adult Human Skin:in vitro Growth and Keratinization of Epidermal Cells. Nature 212, 1583–1584 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121583a0

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