cells Article Autologous, Non-Invasively Available Mesenchymal Stem Cells from the Outer Root Sheath of Hair Follicle Are Obtainable by Migration from Plucked Hair Follicles and Expandable in Scalable Amounts Hanluo Li 1, Federica Francesca Masieri 2, Marie Schneider 3, Tina Kottek 1, Sebastian Hahnel 4, Kensuke Yamauchi 5, Danilo Obradovi´c 6, Jong-Keun Seon 7, Sook Jung Yun 7 , 8 8 8 1, Rubén A. Ferrer , Sandra Franz , Jan-Christoph Simon , Bernd Lethaus y and 1, , Vuk Savkovi´c * y 1 Department of Cranial Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;
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