Some interesting quotes for the lazy ones from the patent
@Noisette posted, dated from 2011
• increased hair count (e.g. , by measuring new hair growth as an increased number of fibers in an affected area of the skin)
• increased hair density
• increased thickness of hair or hair shaft (e.g., based on diameter)
• increased hair weight
• hair cuttings
• longer hair
• increase in the amount of terminal hair (by, e.g., measuring new hair growth as an increased number of fibers in an affected area of the skin, or increased thickness (e.g., diameter) or length of hair fibers)
• increase in the amount of vellus hair (by, e.g. , measuring new hair growth as an increased number of fibers in an affected area of the skin) (e.g., as measured photographically)
• increase in the amount of nonvellus hair, e.g. , intermediate or terminal hair
• an increase in the ratio of terminal -to- vellus hair
• increased number of hair germs
• increased number of hair follicles (e.g. , as evaluated by a skin biopsy)
• increased number of hair follicles at a more mature stage of development
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increased numbers of follicular units with 3 or more hair follicles
• increased hair follicle branching
• formation of new hair follicles ("hair follicle neogenesis")
• formation of new hair follicles with vellus-sized hair shafts (i.e. , hair shafts with diameters less than 30 microns in diameter)
• formation of new hair follicles with nonvellus-sized hair shafts (/. e. , hair shafts with diameters 30 microns or greater in diameter)
• hair follicle regeneration
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increased activation of existing hair follicles
• increased number of hair follicles
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increased number of activated hair follicles
• increased number of activated pre-existing hair follicles
"In certain aspects the methods described herein are
used to replenish hair in scalp that was used or could be used as a donor site for hair transplant surgery."
"a combination of integumental perturbation and
one or more pharmacologic treatments, which may be administered in combination or sequentially or cyclically, results in increased hair, increased hair thickness, and/or longer lasting hair. In certain aspects, such a combination treatment results in a
1.25-fold, 1.5-fold, 2-fold, 2.5-fold, 3-fold, 3.5-fold, or 4- fold or more increase in the amount of hair compared to treatment with a pharmacologic treatment alone."
Among those parmacologic treatments, list is huge, are mentionned :
MK-386, Prostglandin E2 analogs, Prostaglandin D2 receptor antagonists and RU 58841 as viable
"Success may also be measured as a
reduction or elimination of itching, burning, pain, and tenderness associated with the condition, or a reduction of scalp redness, scaling, and/or pustules. Success may also
be measured as a reduction or elimination of inflammation of the scalp."
"Additional objects of the invention are to promote activation, reorganization, or
regeneration of hair follicle units or generation of new hair follicle units; to promote development of hair units, for example, to promote the growth of terminal hair (in preference to vellus hair) for or in follicular units; to promote the branching of pre-existing hair follicle units (
seen as an increased number of hair shafts per pore); to increase the width of hair in hair follicle units (thereby promoting growth of increased shaft widths); and/or to delay or prevent follicle unit senescence."
Feeling some kind of hype crawling through my spine.