hair follicle dermal papilla cell
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000346
A specialized mesenchymal cell that resides in the dermal papilla located at the bottom of hair follicles. This cell plays a pivotal roles in hair formation, growth, and cycling. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9893172 GOC:tfm ]
Term info
Are these really all stem cells?
Term relations
- progenitor cell
- mesenchymal stem cell
- part of some dermal papilla
- develops from some migratory neural crest cell