Review Article
Extrafollicular Dermal Melanocyte Stem Cells and Melanoma
Table 1
Evidence for the presence of extrafollicular dermal MSCs in human skin and in association with peripheral nerves of other vertebrates.
| Source | Origin | MSC marker | Marker type |
| Human | Dermis | kit (+), trp-1(−), bcl-2 (+) | Cytokine receptor, tyrosinase apoptosis regulator [6] | Human | Dermis | NGFRp75, Oct-4 | Nerve growth factor [7–9] | Quail | Schwann cells | ETR-B | Endothelin receptor [29] | Chicken | Spinal ganglia | Melanin | Pigment [31] | Zebrafish | Dermis | trp-1 (−) | Tyrosinase [37–40] | Zebrafish | Nerve | foxd3 and sox10 | Transcription factors [41] |
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