Epigenetic Regulation of Skin Development and Regeneration

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Botchkarev, Vladimir A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Millar, Sarah E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine,
• Subjects: Stem cells.; Regenerative medicine.; Tissue engineering.; Dermatology.; Stem Cells.; Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering.

This indispensable volume highlights recent studies identifying epigenetic mechanisms as essential regulators of skin development, stem cell activity and regeneration. Chapters are contributed by leading experts and promote the skin as an accessible model system for studying mechanisms that control...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1 All Roads Go to the Nucleus
• Chapter 2 DNA methylation as an epigenetic memory keeper during skin development and regeneration
• Chapter 3 Polycomb genes and their roles in skin development and regeneration
• Chapter 4 Trithorax genes in the control of keratinocyte differentiation
• Chapter 5 Histone deacetylase functions in epidermal development, homeostasis and cancer
• Chapter 6 The role of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in the control of epidermal differentiation and skin stem cell activity
• Chapter 7 Orchestrated Role of microRNAs in Skin Development and Regeneration
• Chapter 8 Non-coding genome and its role in the control of gene expression
• Chapter 9 RNA modifications in the control of epidermal differentiation and stem cell activity
• Chapter 10 Enhancer-Promoter Interactions and Their Role in the Control of Epidermal Differentiation
• Chapter 11 Nuclear lamina as an interface between cytoskeleton and chromatin
• Chapter 12 Epigenetic mechanisms in the control of skin wound healing.