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Hair Research Studies

Micrografting Human Scalp Onto Mice

rafted hair follicles showed slowing down of the linear growth rate to 2/3 of the initial value and reduction of the expected life span of the hair follicles (up to 8 months) even though…

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Does Plucking Hair Really Slow Regrowth?

To clarify whether follicular stem cells, defined by their slow cycling nature, are directed to cell death by plucking, we determined the precise location of slow cycling stem cells…

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Does Stress Affect Hair Loss? A Study.

In this study, we evaluate the influence of footshock stress on the term of hair cycle in mice. Female C57BL/6 mice, at 7-8 weeks of age were used. After the depilation of the back skin…

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What Exactly is Hair Shedding? Does it Exist?

This shedding phase, recently termed “exogen”, has been given little attention and thus is poorly understood. It was the purpose of this study to characterize the exogen phase in the mouse…

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How Does Taurine Affect the Hair Follicle?

It was demonstrated in the adult mice that a high density of taurine was found external root sheaths just below the insertion of the sebaceous glands by radioautography. However…

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Effect of Minoxidil on Apoptosis in Dermal Papilla Cells

In this study we investigate whether minoxidil promotes proliferation and inhibits apoptosis in cultured human dermal papilla cell. We used MTT assay to evaluate the…

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The Effects of Thyroid Hormone on Hair Growth

Anagen was induced by depilation as control. We also cultured the follicles and dermal papilla cells of human scalp hair. We observed the growth and the synthesis of…

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Signalling of Phytoestrogens VEGF by Hair Follicle Cells

We evaluated by Western- blot analysis the effect of two total plant extracts: soya and pueraria in comparison with two free forms (genistein, daidzein) and two conjugated forms…

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Balding Dermal Papilla Secretions Delay Hair Growth

Androgens are required for scalp hair follicle miniaturisation in androgenetic alopecia, but their mechanism of action is unclear. The mesenchyme-derived dermal papilla is probably the key tissue in…

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Modifying Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide for Hair Growth

We studied the effect of SP and CGRP on human hair growth using organ culture model in which isolated hair follicles were grown in vitro. We devided the culture plates into four groups…

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