research Alopecia areata – Current understanding and management
Alopecia areata is a chronic condition causing hair loss, with new treatments targeting the immune system showing promise.
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60-90 / 1000+ results research Prevalence of Cobalt in the Environment and Its Role in Biological Processes
Cobalt is important for health but too much or too little can cause health problems, and its environmental buildup is a concern.
research The Role of the Athletic Trainer in Providing Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients: Considerations for Medical Affirmation—Part II
Athletic trainers should understand and support the medical needs of transgender and gender-diverse patients.
research New Modalities in the Treatment of Refractory Alopecia Areata
New treatments focusing on immune pathways show promise for stubborn hair loss.
research Delphi Consensus on Attenuated Androgen Use for Long‐Term Prophylaxis in Hereditary Angioedema: AURA Project
The consensus provides guidelines for safely stopping danazol in hereditary angioedema treatment.
research The Possible Role of Prescribing Medications, Including Central Nervous System Drugs, in Contributing to Male-Factor Infertility (MFI): Assessment of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pharmacovigilance Database
Some medications might contribute to male infertility, with finasteride showing a high number of reports.
research The Impact of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy on Physical Performance
Gender-affirming hormone therapy improves physical performance in trans men to the level of cisgender men, while in trans women, it increases fat mass and decreases muscle mass, with no advantage in physical performance after 2 years.
research Neuropathic Pruritus: An Underrecognized and Often Misdiagnosed and Difficult to Treat Medical Condition
Neuropathic pruritus is a commonly overlooked and wrongly diagnosed type of chronic itching that is hard to treat.
research Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa
The guideline provides healthcare professionals in South Africa with instructions for comprehensive, multidisciplinary gender-affirming care, including HIV prevention and treatment for transgender and gender diverse individuals.
research Neuroimmunology of Stress: Skin Takes Center Stage
Stress can worsen skin and hair conditions by affecting the skin's immune response and hormone levels.
research Stress-Induced Deoxycorticosterone-Derived Neurosteroids Modulate GABAAReceptor Function and Seizure Susceptibility
Stress increases neurosteroids that help prevent seizures.
research Stress Inhibits Hair Growth in Mice by Induction of Premature Catagen Development and Deleterious Perifollicular Inflammatory Events via Neuropeptide Substance P-Dependent Pathways
Stress stops hair growth in mice by causing early hair growth phase end and harmful inflammation through a specific nerve-related pathway.
research Burden of Hair Loss: Stress and the Underestimated Psychosocial Impact of Telogen Effluvium and Androgenetic Alopecia
Hair loss causes stress and affects mental health; treatment and support needed.
research Probing the Effects of Stress Mediators on the Human Hair Follicle
Stress-related substance P may lead to hair loss and negatively affect hair growth.
research Hair growth inhibition by psychoemotional stress: a mouse model for neural mechanisms in hair growth control
Stress can stop hair growth in mice, and treatments can reverse this effect.
research Indications for a brain‐hair follicle axis: inhibition of keratinocyte proliferation and up‐regulation of keratinocyte apoptosis in telogen hair follicles by stress and substance P
Stress can cause hair loss by negatively affecting hair follicles and this effect might be reversed with specific treatments.
research Stress exposure modulates peptidergic innervation and degranulates mast cells in murine skin
Stress increases nerve fibers and immune cell activity in mouse skin, possibly worsening skin conditions.
research Neurogenic Inflammation in Stress-Induced Termination of Murine Hair Growth Is Promoted by Nerve Growth Factor
Stress increases a factor in mice that leads to hair loss, and blocking this factor may prevent it.
research Quantifying long-term stress in brown bears with the hair cortisol concentration: a biomarker that may be confounded by rapid changes in response to capture and handling
Hair cortisol levels in brown bears can be affected by both long-term and short-term stress.
research Stress-induced Interaction of Skin Immune Cells, Hormones, and Neurotransmitters
Stress can worsen skin diseases by affecting immune cells, hormones, and neurotransmitters in the skin.
research Heavily hunted wolves have higher stress and reproductive steroids than wolves with lower hunting pressure
Heavily hunted wolves have higher stress and reproductive hormone levels.
research Mast cell deficient and neurokinin-1 receptor knockout mice are protected from stress-induced hair growth inhibition
Certain mice without specific receptors or mast cells don't lose hair from stress.
research Neuroendocrine Perspectives in Alopecia Areata: Does Stress Play a Role?
Stress might contribute to hair loss in alopecia areata.
research Stress and the Hair Growth Cycle: Cortisol-Induced Hair Growth Disruption.
High stress can disrupt hair growth, but certain supplements might help.
research Stress-related skin disorders
Stress can worsen skin conditions by affecting hormone levels and immune response.
research Stress and reproductive hormones reflect inter-specific social and nutritional conditions mediated by resource availability in a bear-salmon system
Grizzly and black bears have different stress and hormone responses to salmon availability, influenced by nutrition and social competition.
research Neuronal plasticity of the “brain–skin connection”: stress-triggered up-regulation of neuropeptides in dorsal root ganglia and skin via nerve growth factor-dependent pathways
Stress increases certain chemicals in the skin and nerves, which might worsen skin conditions.
research Hair follicle is a target of stress hormone and autoimmune reactions
Stress hormones and autoimmune reactions can cause hair loss.
research Stress and the Hair Follicle
Stress can cause hair loss and skin issues by affecting hair growth cycles.
research STRESS AND AGING*
Anabolic steroids may help prevent aging effects by reducing toxicity, not by their usual functions.