Various substances, quitting smoking, and certain topical applications can enhance the survival of skin flaps used in surgery. Oxygen-free radicals play a role in tissue injury, but certain treatments can have beneficial effects.
September 2017 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Activating the hexosamine pathway can improve skin health and increase hair follicle stem cells.
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August 2021 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” Skin stem cells help create protective immune cells during wound healing.
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January 2008 in “Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology” Skin stem cells help maintain skin health, grow hair, and heal wounds.
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January 1998 in “EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS” The skin of both rat strains showed similar lectin binding patterns.
August 2013 in “International Wound Journal” Non-hairy skin cells might be used to regenerate hair, helping with baldness and skin wounds.
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June 2020 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” Fetal skin has unique immune cells different from adult skin.
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January 2021 in “SSRN Electronic Journal” Transplanted hair follicles can improve and remodel mature scars.
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November 2022 in “Acta Biomaterialia” A new 3-D co-culture system improves hair growth potential in cells for hair regeneration.
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October 2020 in “Bioengineering & translational medicine” Researchers used a laser to create advanced skin models with hair-like structures.
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August 2011 in “Journal of Visualized Experiments” 3D skin models better mimic human skin and melanoma progression than older methods.
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February 2021 in “Developmental Cell” Middle-aged skin shows aging signs, and quercetin might help delay them.
Tissue engineering advancements are improving skin substitutes for better burn treatment.
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September 2013 in “Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” Ex vivo dermatoscopy may lower lab costs and improve diagnosis speed for hair loss biopsies.
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September 2015 in “PubMed” Keloid scars are aggressive, excessive skin scars with unique features and complex diagnosis.
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October 2020 in “Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy” Hair follicle stem cells help skin heal and grow better.
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March 2000 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” The atlas is a useful, affordable guide for skin disease pathology, despite lacking color images.
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August 2013 in “Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine” Transplanted baby mouse skin cells grew normal hair using a new, efficient method.
January 2026 in “British Journal of Dermatology” The ATP assay can measure skin microbiome changes and recovery, with ethanol-treated skin taking longer to recover than tape-stripped skin.
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January 2004 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” Cyclosporine can cause a unique skin condition called "cyclosporine-induced folliculodystrophy."
November 2024 in “Burns & Trauma” Skin organoids help improve wound healing and tissue repair.
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November 2020 in “Journal of Advanced Research” Conditioned medium from keratinocytes can improve hair growth potential in cultured dermal papilla cells.
January 2023 in “Медицинский вестник Северного Кавказа” The patient with Hoffman's folliculitis got better with the right treatment, leading to hair regrowth.
September 2017 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” The reconstructed skin model from hair follicles functions like human skin in processing chemicals and can be used to test ingredient safety.
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January 2012 in “International journal of trichology” Trichostasis spinulosa can be diagnosed with a simple skin biopsy and treated with specific gels, but lesions may return after stopping treatment.