Experimental DermatologyVolume 15 Page 794 - October 2006doi:10.1111/j.1600-0625.2006.00471.x Volume 15 Issue 10 Towards the development of a pragmatic technique for isolating and differentiating nestin-positive cells from human scalp skin into neuronal and glial cell populations: generating neurons from human skin? Charli Kruse, Enikö Bodó, Anna E. Petschnik, Sandra Danner, Stephan Tiede and Ralf Paus Abstract: Nestin+ hair follicle-associated cells of murine skin can be isolated and differentiated in vitro into neuronal and glial cells. Therefore, we have asked whether human skin also contains nestin+ cells, and whether these can be differentiated in vitro into neuronal and/or glial cell populations. In this...