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Four Year Alopecia Areata Totalis Universalis Study
To evaluate the clinical manifestations and the effects of treatment we performed clinical study of 532 patients with alopecia areata (including Alopecia…
Read MoreAlopecia Areata in Children – Can Stress be a Cause?
These results suggest that alopecia in children was predominantly developed in primary school students, the eldest sibling, children with atopic dermatitis or…
Read MoreRogaine as a Treatment for Alopecia Areata?
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of use of rogaine in treating Alopecia Areata patients under the age of 18 years. This survey of clinicians was…
Read MoreMicrografting Human Scalp Onto Mice
rafted hair follicles showed slowing down of the linear growth rate to 2/3 of the initial value and reduction of the expected life span of the hair follicles (up to 8 months) even though…
Read MoreDoes Plucking Hair Really Slow Regrowth?
To clarify whether follicular stem cells, defined by their slow cycling nature, are directed to cell death by plucking, we determined the precise location of slow cycling stem cells…
Read MoreDoes Stress Affect Hair Loss? A Study.
In this study, we evaluate the influence of footshock stress on the term of hair cycle in mice. Female C57BL/6 mice, at 7-8 weeks of age were used. After the depilation of the back skin…
Read MoreWhat Exactly is Hair Shedding? Does it Exist?
This shedding phase, recently termed “exogen”, has been given little attention and thus is poorly understood. It was the purpose of this study to characterize the exogen phase in the mouse…
Read MoreHow Does Taurine Affect the Hair Follicle?
It was demonstrated in the adult mice that a high density of taurine was found external root sheaths just below the insertion of the sebaceous glands by radioautography. However…
Read MoreUsing Sophora Root Extract to Treat Hair Loss?
In the course of screening plant extracts for anagen elongation activity, the extract of dried roots of Sophora Flavescens Aiton (SRE), was found to ossess potent anagen elongation activity…
Read MoreEthanol Extracts as Hair Growth Stimulants?
150 subjects of male pattern alopecia were treated with HEM-13/HDC twice a day for 6 months and subjective and objective clinical symptoms were assessed. Objective symptom was assessed…
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