A Male Pattern Baldness In Wattled Starlings Resembling The Condition In Man*

[Otis Mack]

http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1960.tb40917.x


We can rule out many things that we try to attribute human Androgenetic Alopecia to:

1)diet? How bad is the birds diet?

2)bad gut bacteria in birds too? Unlikely...

3) I was quite surprised by this one because sebaceous glands are not present in the birds:

Induction of AIPB in birds argues strongly against claims(Flesch,1951) that an
important or necessary role in androgen-induced baldness is playedby
squalene and other elements in the sebum produced by pilosebaceous
apparatus.

There are no sebaceous glands in the scalp of these birds.



http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1960.tb40917.x

 

[whatevr]

I knew this was gonna be an old study due to the animals in the experiment. These days they only test anything on mice, which are a terrible model for baldness, but are cheap and grow fast. They even dropped the stumptailed macaque which is a reasonable model for male pattern baldness, and so testing all these compounds on mice which AFAIK do not normally lose their hair due to their own androgens, is largely f*****g useless. This is reflected in 99% of male pattern baldness studies which are exactly that, f*****g useless.

 

[Hangin'on Hair]

We're talking feathers here right???