1993 Narisawa Y, Hashimoto K, Kobda H

 
Epithelial skirt and bulge of human facial vellus hair follicles and associated Merkel-cell nerve complex. Arch Dermatol Res 1993;285:269–277.
 

Message

 
Free nerve endings could be demonstrated in the fibrous capsule that surrounds the mantle.
 
The mantle plays a role in sensation.
 

Critique

 
The adventitial dermis of adnexal epithelial structures is innervated, as well as vascularized. The mantle is a normal adnexal structure that has nothing to do with sensation.