Chronic spinal cord injury functionally repaired by direct implantation of encapsulated hair-follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells in a mouse model: Potential for clinical regenerative medicine

• Koya Obara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koya Obara, Yuko Hamada, Nobuko Arakawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-3161

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• Kyoumi Shirai ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ KS, MY, NT and RA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yuko Hamada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koya Obara, Yuko Hamada, Nobuko Arakawa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Nobuko Arakawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koya Obara, Yuko Hamada, Nobuko Arakawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Michiko Yamane ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ KS, MY, NT and RA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Nanako Takaoka ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ KS, MY, NT and RA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Ryoichi Aki ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ KS, MY, NT and RA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Robert M. Hoffman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yasuyukiamoh@aol.com (YA); all@anticancer.com (RMH)

  Affiliations AntiCancer, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Yasuyuki Amoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yasuyukiamoh@aol.com (YA); all@anticancer.com (RMH)

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

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