Polak, Lisa

Self-Renewal, Multipotency, and the Existence of Two Cell Populations within an Epithelial Stem Cell Niche

Blanpain, C., Lowry, W. E., Geoghegan, A., Polak, L., & Fuchs, E. (2004) · Cell

Hair Growth and DisordersSkin and Cellular Biology Research

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Inflammatory memory sensitizes skin epithelial stem cells to tissue damage

Naik, S., Larsen, S. B., Gomez, N. C., Alaverdyan, K., Sendoel, A., Yuan, S., Polak, L., Kulukian, A., Chai, S., & Fuchs, E. (2017) · Nature

Inflammasome and immune disordersHair Growth and Disorders

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Hair follicle stem cells are specified and function in early skin morphogenesis

Nowak, J. A., Polak, L., Pasolli, H. A., & Fuchs, E. (2008) · Cell Stem Cell

Hair Growth and DisordersSkin and Cellular Biology Research

Cited by 554

NFATc1 Balances Quiescence and Proliferation of Skin Stem Cells

Horsley, V., Aliprantis, A. O., Polak, L., Glimcher, L. H., & Fuchs, E. (2008) · Cell

Hair Growth and DisordersSignaling Pathways in Disease

Cited by 424

Identification of Stem Cell Populations in Sweat Glands and Ducts Reveals Roles in Homeostasis and Wound Repair

Lu, C. P., Polak, L., Rocha, A. S., Pasolli, H. A., Chen, S.-C., Sharma, N., Blanpain, C., & Fuchs, E. (2012) · Cell

Hair Growth and DisordersMesenchymal stem cell research

Cited by 301

Adaptive Immune Resistance Emerges from Tumor-Initiating Stem Cells

Miao, Y., Yang, H., Levorse, J., Yuan, S., Polak, L., Sribour, M., Singh, B., Rosenblum, M. D., & Fuchs, E. (2019) · Cell

Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersCancer Cells and Metastasis

Cited by 299

Impaired Epidermal to Dendritic T Cell Signaling Slows Wound Repair in Aged Skin

Keyes, B. E., Liu, S., Asare, A., Naik, S., Levorse, J., Polak, L., Lu, C. P., Nikolova, M., Pasolli, H. A., & Fuchs, E. (2016) · Cell

Wound Healing and TreatmentsCytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions

Cited by 266

Genome-wide Maps of Histone Modifications Unwind In Vivo Chromatin States of the Hair Follicle Lineage

Lien, W.-H., Guo, X., Polak, L., Lawton, L. N., Young, R. A., Zheng, D., & Fuchs, E. (2011) · Cell Stem Cell

Hair Growth and DisordersEpigenetics and DNA Methylation

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The aging skin microenvironment dictates stem cell behavior

Ge, Y., Miao, Y., Gur-Cohen, S., Gomez, N., Yang, H., Nikolova, M., Polak, L., Hu, Y., Verma, A., Elemento, O., et al. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Hair Growth and DisordersHematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

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Spatiotemporal antagonism in mesenchymal-epithelial signaling in sweat versus hair fate decision

Lu, C. P., Polak, L., Keyes, B. E., & Fuchs, E. (2016) · Science

Hair Growth and DisordersDevelopmental Biology and Gene Regulation

Cited by 149

BMP signaling: at the gate between activated melanocyte stem cells and differentiation

Infarinato, N. R., Stewart, K. S., Yang, Y., Gomez, N. C., Pasolli, H. A., Hidalgo, L., Polak, L., Carroll, T. S., & Fuchs, E. (2020) · Genes & Development

melanin and skin pigmentationHair Growth and Disorders

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