Studies of the epidermis have been carried out in various models, such as the monolayer culture in vitro model and three-dimensional (3D) skin models, that are spatially organized to display the architectural features seen in human skin. These models have furthered our understanding of epidermal cell biology and provided quite a few lines of evidence on proliferation, cellular metabolism, morphological status, and state of differentiation. In this chapter, we describe a novel method using epithelial cell aggregates embedded in a collagen gel, instead of individual cells, for building cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. Analyzing cell behaviors during epidermal differentiation would be helpful. Our method would help to analyze a possible regulatory mechanism underlying epidermal differentiation.
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Okugawa, Y., & Hirai, Y. (2013). A Novel Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Method to Analyze Epidermal Cell Differentiation In Vitro (pp. 183–190). https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2013_45
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