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Flat Mount Imaging of Mouse Skin and Its Application to the Analysis of Hair Follicle Patterning and Sensory Axon Morphology
Published on: June 25, 2014
Morphology of hair in normal and mutant laboratory mice
1Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500, USA. jps@jax.org
European Journal of Dermatology : EJD
|June 16, 2001
Abstract:
Inbred laboratory mice are mammals and therefore are haired. Mice develop many of the same diseases as humans and have become the premier in vivo model for studying biology, pathology, genetics, and molecular mechanisms. Mice are useful tools to study hair biology. Examples of characterized mutant mice with abnormal pilosebaceous unit phenotypes are presented to illustrate the value of these animals as models to help understand human diseases of the skin and hair.

