1.      Li, L., Mignone, J., Yang, M., Matic, M., Penman, S., Enikolopov, G., and Hoffman, R.M.  Nestin expression in hair follicle sheath progenitor cells.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 9958-9961, 2003.

2.      Amoh, Y., Li, L., Yang, M., Moossa, A.R., Katsuoka, K., Penman, S., and Hoffman, R.M.  Nascent blood vessels in the skin arise from nestin-expressing hair follicle cells.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 13291-13295, 2004.

3.      Amoh, Y., Li, L., Katsuoka, K., Penman, S., and Hoffman, R.M.  Multipotent nestin-positive, keratin-negative hair-follicle-bulge stem cells can form neurons.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 5530-5534, 2005.

4.      Amoh, Y., Li, L., Campillo, R., Kawahara, K., Katsuoka, K., Penman, S., and Hoffman, R.M.  Implanted hair follicle stem cells form Schwann cells that support repair of severed peripheral nerves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 17734-17738, 2005.

5.       Hoffman, R.M.  The hair follicle and its stem cells as drug delivery targets. Expert Opinion Drug Delivery 3, 437-443, 2006.

6.        Hoffman, R.M.  The pluripotency of hair follicle stem cells.  Cell Cycle 5, 232-233, 2006.

7.      Amoh, Y., Li, L., Moossa, A.R., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  Chemotherapy targets the hair-follicle vascular network but not the stem cells.  J. Invest. Dermatol. 127, 11-15, 2007.

8.      Hoffman, R.M.  The potential of nestin-expressing hair follicle stem cells in regenerative medicine. Expert Opin. Biol. Ther. 7, 289-291, 2007.

9.      Amoh, Y., Li, L., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  Multipotent hair follicle stem cells promote repair of spinal cord injury and recovery of walking function.  Cell Cycle 7, 1865-1869, 2008.

10.   Hoffman, R.M.  The hair follicle stem cell as the paradigm multipotent adult stem cell.  In:  Vol: Stem Cell Research and Therapeutics, Shi, Y., and Clegg, D.O., eds., 275-287, 320-326.  Series: Advances in Biomedical Research 1, Liu, J.H., ed.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2008.

11.  Amoh, Y., Kanoh, M., Niiyama, S., Kawahara, K., Satoh, Y., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  Human and mouse hair follicles contain both multipotent and monopotent stem cells.  Cell Cycle 8, 176-177, 2009.

12.  Amoh, Y., Li, L., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  Multipotent nestin-expressing hair follicle stem cells.  Journal of Dermatology 36, 1-9, 2009.

13.    Amoh, Y., Kanoh, M., Niiyama, S., Hamada, Y., Kawahara, K., Sato, Y., Hoffman, R.M., and Katsuoka, K.  Human hair follicle pluripotent stem (hfPS) cells promote regeneration of peripheral-nerve injury: An advantageous alternative to ES and iPS cells.  J. Cell. Biochem. 107, 1016-1020, 2009.

14.   Hoffman, R.M.  Hair follicle pluripotent stem (hfPS) cells.  In: Human Adult Stem Cells, Human Cell Culture 7, pp. 171-182.  Masters, J.R., Palsson, B.O., eds.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.

15.  Amoh, Y., and Hoffman, R.M.  Isolation and culture of hair follicle pluripotent stem (hfPS) cells and their use for nerve and spinal cord regeneration.  In: Methods in Molecular Medicine, Vol. 585: Epidermal Cells Methods and Protocols, 2^nd edition, pp. 401-420.  K. Turksen, ed.  New York, NY: Humana Press, 2010.

16.   Hoffman, R.M.  The pluripotent hair follicle stem cell: a target for gene therapy.  In textbook on “Hair Aging,” pp. 233-238.  Trüeb R.M. and Tobin, D.J., Eds., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

17.   Aki, R., Amoh, Y., Li, L., Katsuoka, K., Hoffman, R.M.  Nestin-expressing interfollicular blood vessel network contributes to skin transplant survival and wound healing.  J Cell Biochem. 110(1), 80-86, 2010.

18.   Amoh, Y., Hamada, Y., Aki, R., Kawahara, K., Hoffman, R.M., Katsuoka, K.  Direct transplantation of uncultured hair-follicle pluripotent stem (hfPS) cells promotes the recovery of peripheral nerve injury.  J Cell Biochem. 110(1), 272-277, 2010.

19.   Hoffman, R.M. Nestin-driven green fluorescent protein as an imaging marker for nascent blood vessels in mouse models of cancer. In: Light Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology 689. H. Chiarini-Garcia, R.C.N. Melo, eds. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 183-204, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-950-5.

20.    Liu, F., Uchugonova, A., Kimura, H., Zhang, C., Zhao, M., Zhang, L., Koenig, K., Duong, J., Aki, R., Saito, N., Mii, S., Amoh, Y., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  The bulge area is the major hair follicle source of nestin-expressing pluripotent stem cells which can repair the spinal cord compared to the dermal papilla.  Cell Cycle 10, 830-839, 2011.

21.   Uchugonova, A., Hoffman, R.M., Weinigel, M., and Koenig, K.  Watching stem cells in the skin of living mice noninvasively.  Cell Cycle 10, 2017-2020, 2011.

22.    Lin, H., Liu, F., Zhang, C., Zhang, Z., Kong, Z., Zhang, X., and Hoffman, R.M.  Characterization of nerve conduits seeded with neurons and Schwann cells derived from hair follicle neural crest stem cells.  Tissue Eng. Part A 17, 1691-1698, 2011.  DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0514.

23.    Uchugonova, A., Duong, J., Zhang, N., König, K., and Hoffman, R.M.  The bulge area is the origin of nestin-expressing pluripotent stem cells of the hair follicle.  J. Cell. Biochem. 112, 2046-2050, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/jcb.23122.

24.    Amoh, Y., Aki, R., Hamada, Y., Niiyama, S., Eshima, K., Kawahara, K., Sato, Y., Tani, Y., Hoffman, R.M., and Katsuoka, K.  Nestin-positive hair follicle pluripotent stem cells can promote regeneration of impinged peripheral nerve injury.  Journal of Dermatology 39, 33-38, 2012.

25.    Duong, J., Mii, S., Uchugonova, A., Liu, F., Moossa, A.R., and Hoffman, R.M. Real-time confocal imaging of trafficking of nestin-expressing multipotent stem cells in mouse whiskers in long-term 3-D histoculture.  In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 48, 301-305, 2012.

26.    Amoh, Y., Mii, S., Aki, R., Hamada, Y., Kawahara, K., Hoffman, R.M., and Katsuoka, K.  Multipotent nestin-expressing stem cells capable of forming neurons are located in the upper, middle and lower part of the vibrissa hair follicle.  Cell Cycle 11, 3513-3517, 2012.

27.    Mii, S., Duong, J., Tome, Y., Uchugonova, A., Liu, F., Amoh, Y., Saito, N., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R. M. The role of hair follicle nestin-expressing stem cells during whisker sensory-nerve growth in long-term 3D culture. J. Cell. Biochem. 114, 1674-1684, 2013.

28.    Mii, S., Uehara, F., Yano, S., Tran, B., Miwa, S., Hiroshima, Y., Amoh, Y., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R. M. Nestin-expressing stem cells promote nerve growth in long-term 3-dimensional gelfoam®-supported histoculture. PLoS One 8(6), e67153, 2013. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0067153.

29.    Ke, C-C., Liu, R-S., Suetsugu, A., Kimura, H., Ho, J.H., Lee, O.K., and Hoffman, R.M. In vivo fluorescence imaging reveals the promotion of mammary tumorigenesis by mesenchymal stromal cells. PLoS One 8, e69658, 2013.

30.  Hiroshima, Y., Zhao, M., Zhang, Y., Maawy, A., Hassanein, M.K., Uehara, F., Miwa, S., Yano, S., Momiyama, M., Suetsugu, A., Chishima, T., Tanaka, K., Bouvet, M., Endo, I., and Hoffman, R.M. Comparison of efficacy of Salmonella typhimurium A1-R and chemotherapy on stem-like and non-stem human pancreatic cancer cells. Cell Cycle 12, 2774-2780, 2013.

31.  Liu, F., Zhang, C., and Hoffman, R.M. Nestin-expressing stem cells from the hair follicle can differentiate into motor neurons and reduce muscle atrophy after transplantation to injured nerves. Tissue Engineering 20, 656-662, 2014.

32.  Mii, S., Amoh, Y., Katsuoka, K., and Hoffman, R. M. Comparison of nestin-expressing multipotent stem cells in the tongue fungiform papilla and vibrissa hair follicle. J. Cell. Biochem. 115, 1070-1076, 2014.

33.  Hoffman, R.M. Nestin-expressing hair follicle-accessible-pluripotent (HAP) stem cells for nerve and spinal cord repair. Cells Tissues Organs, in press.