February 2026 in “Nature Communications” Inhibiting connective tissue sheath contraction may improve hair growth in male pattern baldness.
November 2023 in “Journal of Dermatological Science” Cells that move well may improve hair loss treatments by entering hair follicles.
Linalool in personal care products may worsen frontal fibrosing alopecia by damaging hair follicle stem cells and triggering harmful immune responses.
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February 2022 in “PeerJ” Hair follicle stem cell transplants can reverse liver cirrhosis by blocking harmful cell activation.
December 2017 in “Canadian journal of ophthalmology” A rare skin condition was misdiagnosed as a harmless mole on a woman's eyelid.
September 2008 in “Acta Ophthalmologica” Hair follicle stem cells can become corneal-like cells with the right environment.
January 2023 in “Annals of dermatology/Annals of Dermatology” A substance called miR-1246 may help treat severe hair loss by reducing certain immune cell activities.
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March 2019 in “Chinese Medical Journal” Researchers identified potential markers for human hair color stem cells.
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May 2015 in “PloS one” Hair follicle pores help cell survival and growth, even after radiation.
June 2020 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” Scientists found new and known long non-coding RNAs in mouse hair follicle stem cells that may be important for stem cell function and could be targets for cancer treatment.
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January 2017 in “British Journal of Dermatology” Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a scarring hair loss condition mainly affecting older women, with no known cause and treatments that may help stabilize hair loss.
November 2023 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” Scientists made a mouse that shows how a specific protein in the skin changes and affects hair growth and shape.
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August 2022 in “Science immunology” Foxn1 gene regulation is crucial for thymus development but not for hair growth.
August 2017 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Activin increases skin tumor formation, skin Tregs help hair growth, lymph-node removal doesn't improve melanoma survival, cells can revert to stem cells in wound healing, and skin bacteria produce peptides that may treat infections.
July 2022 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” Scientists created a detailed map of gene activity in different parts of human hair follicles.
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April 1995 in “The journal of cell biology/The Journal of cell biology” A new protein was made to detect specific skin cell growth receptors and worked in normal skin but not in skin cancer cells.
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November 2020 in “Research Square (Research Square)” The study found specific skin cells and genes that may affect the quality of cashmere in Liaoning Cashmere Goats.
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September 2016 in “British journal of dermatology/British journal of dermatology, Supplement” Human hair follicle dermal cells can effectively replace other cells in engineered skin.
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January 2020 in “Journal of Materials Chemistry B” The biofilm enhances skin healing by promoting cell growth and blood vessel formation.
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January 2017 in “Skin appendage disorders” Two patients with skin lupus were mistakenly thought to have a different scalp condition but improved with lupus treatment.
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December 2018 Alopecia frontal fibrosante affects facial vellus hair and can be diagnosed with dermatoscopy.
June 2024 in “Research Square (Research Square)” Jagged-1 in skin Tregs is crucial for timely wound healing by recruiting specific immune cells.
May 2021 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” rPanglaoDB helps study rare cell types by merging RNA data, confirming fibrocytes' role in healing.
April 2018 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” IL-17C is important in inflammatory skin diseases and could be a target for treatment.
December 2015 in “Vascular Pharmacology” Different cells affect hair follicle blood vessels, endothelial cells react differently to inflammation and oxidized fats, and prasugrel better protects heart vessels during a procedure than clopidogrel.
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April 1998 in “PubMed” Nexin 1 helps control hair growth in young rats.
May 2024 in “JAMA Dermatology” Oral contraceptive use may increase the risk of frontal fibrosing alopecia in women with a specific CYP1B1 gene variant.
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January 2010 in “Human Molecular Genetics” FTase and GGTase-I are essential for skin keratinocyte health.
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February 2014 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” Most patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia are postmenopausal women, and treatments like finasteride and dutasteride can improve or stabilize the condition.
September 2016 in “Journal of Dermatological Science” The protein aPKCλ is crucial for keeping hair follicle stem cells inactive and for hair growth and regeneration.