A team lead by Zhi-Qi Hu from the Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, China, and Malcolm Xing from the University of Manitoba, Canada, has designed what Xing describes as ‘nutritious nano-clothing’. This creates a protective microenvironment for dermal papilla cells, and at the same time provides the cells with a source of fibroblast growth factor-2, an essential cytokine culture nutrient that enhances proliferation and hair-inductive properties.
FGF-2 for proliferation? There's been some talk abut FGF-9 causing follicle neogenesis when coupled with wounding... is there any more info on what FGF-2 on it's own could do?
According to this 2014 report describing FGF-1, FGF-2, and FGF-10 effects on hair growth in mice:
"[FONT=Minion W08 Regular_1167271]FGFs promote hair growth by inducing the anagen phase in resting hair follicles and might be a potential hair growth-promoting agent."[/FONT]
Adenosine stimulates growth of dermal papilla and lengthens the anagen phase by increasing the cysteine level via fibroblast growth factors 2 and 7 in an organ culture of mouse vibrissae hair follicles.
