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Nature Cell Biology 10, 1251 - 1253 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ncb1108-1251
Bad hair days for mouse PCP mutants
Jeffrey D. Axelrod1
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Jeffrey D. Axelrod is in the Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
e-mail: jaxelrod@stanford.edu
Abstract
Mammalian hairs have characteristic patterns of orientation, with a predominantly rostral to caudal direction, occasional swirls and a high level of local correlation between hairs. A detailed new study demonstrates that the polarity of hairs derives from an underlying planar polarity of the basal epidermal cells from which hair follicles arise.
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