File:Hair Follicle.jpg

Diagram of the hair follicle at anagen phase: populations of melanocyte and keratinocyte stem cells are located in the hair bulge in red. Differentiated melanocytes in the hair bulb are in blue. These supply melanosomes for hair pigmentation to the keratinocytes that form the hair shaft.

Reference

Drawn by student - gathered from written information from the source: Mackenzie MA, Jordan SA, Budd PS & Jackson IJ. (1997). Activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase Kit is required for the proliferation of melanoblasts in the mouse embryo. Dev. Biol. , 192, 99-107. PMID: 9405100 DOI.

Mark Hill (talk) 17:00, 30 October 2018 (AEDT) This image contains all the required information and is relevant to the group project page. I am wondering why a student-drawn version was required when there are so many freely available versions of hair follicle figures.

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