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Take a breath: oxygen sensing of epidermal differentiation
Artem Smirnov1, Eleonora Candi1,2
1Department of Experimental Medicine, Torvergata Oncoscience Research Centre of Excellence, TOR, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Skin serves as a barrier to protect our body from injury, pathogens and trans-epidermal water loss. It is the only tissue directly exposed to oxygen besides lungs. Air exposure is an essential step of in vitro generation skin graft. However, the role of oxygen in this process remains hitherto unclear. Teshima et al. unveiled the impact of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway on epidermal differentiation in three-dimensional skin models. The authors of this work describe how air-lifting of organotypic epidermal cultures impairs HIFs activity, leading to a proper terminal differentiation of keratinocytes and stratification.
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