It has been said many times that the reason for using cells taken from the hair at the back of your scalp, aside from the obvious, is because those cells have resilience to DHT. The idea is that primordium derived from this will inherit that resilience.
Not necessarily. You couldn't use just anyone's stem cells - the very point of using stem cells is that because they are your own, there is very little, if any, chance of rejection. Allogeneic transplants are possible in other stem cell therapies like bone marrow, but you must use someone with the same bone marrow. This reduces the chance of getting something call "GVHD", "graft versus host disease" caused by a protein mismatch. Hair is a protein.
Logically, for an allo-transplant to work safely with hair, you would need someone with similar proteins to your own hair - a brother or sister, perhaps.
If this turns out to be true, will that mean I will be able to take hair from my blonde girllfriend and have blonde hair? )))))) I have black curly hair. Wonder if the foreign hair would start getting the attributes of the hosts hair. It was observed that when you transplant a beard hair to the scalp it changes texture and length similar to the scalp hair.
Not necessarily. You couldn't use just anyone's stem cells - the very point of using stem cells is that because they are your own, there is very little, if any, chance of rejection. Allogeneic transplants are possible in other stem cell therapies like bone marrow, but you must use someone with the same bone marrow. This reduces the chance of getting something call "GVHD", "graft versus host disease" caused by a protein mismatch. Hair is a protein.
Logically, for an allo-transplant to work safely with hair, you would need someone with similar proteins to your own hair - a brother or sister, perhaps.