Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells

Empirical and anecdotal evidence has associated stress with accelerated hair greying (formation of unpigmented hairs)1,2, but so far there has been little scientific validation of this link. Here we report that, in mice, acute stress leads to hair greying through the fast depletion of melanocyte ste...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Bing, Ma, Sai, Rachmin, Inbal, He, Megan, Baral, Pankaj, Choi, Sekyu, Gonçalves, William A., Shwartz, Yulia, Fast, Eva M., Su, Yiqun, Zon, Leonard I., Regev, Aviv, Buenrostro, Jason D., Cunha, Thiago M., Chiu, Isaac M., Fisher, David E., Hsu, Ya-Chieh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126732

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