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Professor Rui-Ping Xiao, founder of Hope Medicine, "this study is the first ever to show that prolactin receptor blockade can promote hair growth in patients with androgenic alopecia and may provide a novel therapeutic approach."
What point are you making with that quote? Because it only aligns with what I said. Are you confused by the term "prolactin receptor blockade"? Because that does not at all mean it inhibits prolactin production.
HMI-115 is an antibody that binds to prolactin receptors. Prolactin also binds to prolactin receptors. Prolactin and prolactin receptors are different things. Prolactin receptors do not create prolactin. When HMI-115 binds to prolactin receptors, the shape of the receptor is altered so when prolactin then binds to it, the resulting reaction does not occur. This is what they mean by "prolactin receptor blockade". It is presumably very very different biologically than blocking the production of prolactin. The reason why is unknown.