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Epidermal cell mitoses occur in a random spatial (Poisson) distribution in the plane of the epidermis of the mouse. It is therefore unlikely that the focal accumulation of a local extracellular factor is responsible for the initiation of mitoses.
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Frei et al. (1963) studied this question.
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