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Melatonin regulates cutaneous cell activity, and lncRNAs function as ceRNA to sponge miRNAs and modulate target genes. Whether melatonin controls fibroblast proliferation through an lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA cascade remains unclear. This study explored how melatonin mediates the LncRNA16913.1-chi-miR-195-5p-FZD6 axis to regulate cashmere goat skin fibroblast proliferation. We constructed gain-of-function and loss-of-function models of LncRNA16913.1 and chi-miR-195-5p. Immunohistochemistry located FZD6 in hair follicles; RT-qPCR, Western blot, CCK-8, EdU and flow cytometry detected gene expression and cell phenotypes. Bioinformatic prediction, dual-luciferase assay, fluorescence in situ hybridization, RNA pull-down and rescue tests verified molecular binding relationships. Melatonin upregulated LncRNA16913.1 and FZD6, yet downregulated chi-miR-195-5p, with FZD6 mainly distributed in hair follicle inner and outer root sheaths. Inhibiting chi-miR-195-5p boosted fibroblast proliferation, restrained apoptosis and accelerated the cell cycle. chi-miR-195-5p directly suppressed FZD6, while cytoplasmic LncRNA16913.1 sequestered this miRNA to recover FZD6 expression. Silencing LncRNA16913.1 eliminated melatonin-mediated FZD6 upregulation. In short, melatonin increased LncRNA16913.1, which sequestered chi-miR-195-5p to release FZD6 and facilitate fibro-blast proliferation. Combined dual-luciferase, bidirectional rescue and cellular phenotypic assays collectively verified the fact that FZD6 acts as the functional downstream target of chi-miR-195-5p to mediate fibroblast proliferation in vitro.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani16152420","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]],"date-time":"2026-08-05T13:16:29Z","timestamp":1785935789000},"page":"2420","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Melatonin Regulates the Proliferation of Liaoning Cashmere Goat Skin Fibroblasts via the lncRNA16913.1-chi-miR-195-5p-FZD6 Axis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Weiyu","family":"Fan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linlin","family":"Cong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Na","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-5551-3190","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaning","family":"Ge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-6459-4562","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiaxin","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7986-5020","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mei","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Pan, J., Hu, S., Ren, X., Hu, H., Deng, X., Yu, B., Cobos, I., Chen, X., and Zhang, W. 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