That's literally the no. 1 poster that drew my attention. Very interesting but notice how about 10% of the cells maintain CD34 expression? If I remember well CD34 is a stem cell marker (equivalent to CD200 in humans) so does that mean most cells don't maintain stem cell capacity? Anyone? I've read about assymetric cell division before (
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_cell_division) which is when a stem cell divides into a stem cell and a somatic cell instead of two stem cells, this is probably to keep stem cell numbers at a controlled, functioning level, I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case in a small fragile niche like the hair follicle. Maybe that is/was one of the hurdles Tsuji faces with epithelial stem cells, getting 1000/1000 stem cells instead of 100/1000.
On a second note, my God it's crazy how useless 95% of these studies are.. you can tell some of them were published for $$$. The scientific world is crazy inefficient and yet everytime a decent hair loss article comes along in the press people suddenly go "muh cancer, muh resources"!
BTW
@BaldyBalderBald does
https://i.imgur.com/5jHLblC.jpg answer any of your questions about wounding and hair direction?
Oh and nice to see Yokohama uni jump on the bandwagon