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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 121-125 |
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Extracted hair follicle outer root sheath cell suspension for pigment cell restoration in vitiligo
Anil Kumar1, Sujata Mohanty1, Kanika Sahni2, Rajesh Kumar3, Somesh Gupta2
1 Department of Stem Cell Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3 Department of Dermatology, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
Somesh Gupta
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2077.112679
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Vitiligo surgery has come up a long way from punch skin grafts to epidermal cell suspension and latest to the extracted hair follicle outer root sheath cell suspension (EHF-ORS-CS) transplantation. The progressive development from one technique to the other is always in a quest for the best. In the latest development- EHF-ORS-CS, which is an enriched source of follicular inactive melanocyte (melanocyte stem cells), seems to be a good addition to the prevailing cell-based therapies for vitiligo; however, need to be explored further in larger, and preferably randomized blinded studies. This review discusses the principle, technical details, and stem cell composition of hair follicular outer root sheath cell suspension. |
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