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March 1999 in “Journal of Cutaneous Pathology” Trichoepitheliomas and some basal cell carcinomas likely come from hair follicle stem cells.
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August 2000 in “Journal of Cutaneous Pathology” Poromas are related to sweat duct cells, and CK patterns help distinguish apocrine poromas from other neoplasms.
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January 2011 in “Journal of Cutaneous Pathology” CK15 is not a reliable marker for stem cells in damaged hair follicles from patients with CCCA.
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October 2022 in “Veterinary pathology” Some canine hair follicle tumors contain amyloid deposits, with a protein called CK5 involved in their formation.
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August 2005 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” Researchers found new genes involved in hair growth, which could help develop new hair treatments.
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September 1999 in “The journal of cell biology/The Journal of cell biology” K16 can partially replace K14 but causes hair loss and skin issues.
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February 2017 in “Scientific Reports” Researchers found a way to create cells from stem cells that act like human cells important for hair growth and could be used for hair regeneration treatments.
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May 2021 in “Biomedicines” Targeting the protein Caveolin-1 might help treat a type of scarring hair loss called Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia.
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March 2018 in “Biotechnology Letters” Scientists created a new cell line from Cashmere goat hair and found that cytokeratin 13 is a unique marker for certain skin cells.
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January 2019 in “Annals of Dermatology” Higher levels of MiR-92a-1-5p and miR-328-3p found in female hair loss patients.
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February 2021 in “FEBS open bio” Human hair keratins K85 and K35 create unique filament patterns important for early hair formation.
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February 2012 in “InTech eBooks” CK7 and CK20 help identify and classify tumors for accurate cancer diagnosis.
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April 2021 in “Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology” Brassica oleracea extract, glucosinlates, and sulforaphane can boost hair growth and might be used to treat hair loss.
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