Hypopigmented burn hypertrophic scar contains melanocytes that can be signaled to re-pigment by synthetic alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in vitro

• Bonnie C. Carney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2292-4960

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• Taryn E. Travis,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Lauren T. Moffatt,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Laura S. Johnson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6969-2648

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• Melissa M. McLawhorn,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Cynthia M. Simbulan-Rosenthal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Dean S. Rosenthal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Jeffrey W. Shupp

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jeffrey.w.shupp@medstar.net

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

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