It's been more than 2 years now.
I'm actually pretty excited about this. It would be cheaper and easier than Tsuji or Stemson, and has the potential to reverse balding just as well if their reprogramming is as successful as claimed, which it seems to be.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621486/
We can already largely remove the underlying cause of DP cell depletion with dutasteride and AR antagonists.
I'm actually pretty excited about this. It would be cheaper and easier than Tsuji or Stemson, and has the potential to reverse balding just as well if their reprogramming is as successful as claimed, which it seems to be.
when the underlying cause of DP cell depletion is removed in our mouse model, the follicle exhibits an intrinsic capacity for regulative regeneration to produce normal hairs, but only when DP cell number is sufficient to stimulate anagen re-entry. Treatments to arrest follicular decline are available for some forms of human hair thinning, but effective repair of diminished follicles has remained elusive. In our mouse model, the difference of a few DP cells distinguishes whether a follicle will arrest and fail to make a new hair or will re-enter the hair cycle and undergo regenerative repair. This suggests that therapeutic interventions in humans that cause only a minor direct improvement in DP cell number may be sufficient to restore hair cycling and harness the natural regenerative ability of the follicle for further progress towards robust hair growth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621486/
We can already largely remove the underlying cause of DP cell depletion with dutasteride and AR antagonists.
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