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February 1993 in “Nursing Standard” Many drugs, not just chemotherapy, can cause reversible hair loss.
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July 2014 in “Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine” The document concludes that adult mammalian skin contains multiple stem cell populations with specific markers, important for understanding skin regeneration and related conditions.