Abstract

This chapter focuses on key events and regulatory mechanisms that result in the morphogenesis, maintenance, and regeneration of the skin and its appendages. Understanding skin development provides essential insights into genetic skin diseases and facilitates the development of therapeutic approaches to acquired as well as inherited disorders. Maintenance and repair of the skin are dependent on skin stem cells with multiple independent progenitor pools that have diverse biological potential and regulatory mechanisms. Harnessing stem cells for therapy, either directly or by reprogramming them into pluripotent stem cells, holds great promise.

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