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| File Name : HAIR3.ASC | Online Date : 10/06/94 |
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| Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : BIOLOGY |
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| From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 |
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The following is another item which has decided comsumer applications that I
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don't see on today's market.
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From Science Digest - March 1985
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Restoring Hair at the Follicle
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Life, as John F. Kennedy once said isn't fair. Consider baldness. Not the
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most terrible thing that can happen to a man, but, still, a blow to the self-
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image.
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Despite lotions, rugs of various weaves and hair transplants, medical science
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hasn't come up with a cure - yet. But researchers at the University of
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Dundee, Scotland, have taken a major step in a promising direction.
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The background. Certain skin cells called DERMAL PAPILLAE, which sit at the
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base of hair follicles, control hair growth. If the papillae are removed,
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growth stops. If they are put back, it RESUMES. Papillae can even induce the
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formation of brand-new, healthy hair follicles.
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Colin Jahoda, Kenneth Home and Roy Oliver report in NATURE that they cultured
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rat papillae in test tubes, getting them to reproduce IN QUANTITY. The new
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cells were as good at recharging barren follicles in rat skin as the originals
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were.
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Human papillae can also be cultured, and if they do as well as hair
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regeneration as those of the rats do, it will be possible to study why human
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follicles lose their potency. More to the point, papillae transplants may
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turn out to be the key to that long-sought baldness cure.
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