Discovery to help balding men regrow hair
Wednesday June 27, 2012 10:05:30 AM,
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London: The discovery
that hair follicles in balding people are trapped in a "sleeping"
state will help scientists develop a new treatment to combat
thinning hairs.
Trichologists now claim to have identified a way of waking the
follicles up again to help restore a fuller head of hair to people
who are going bald.
Bruno Bernard, head of hair biology at L'Oreal in Paris who
carried out the research, has now announced that the company is
developing a new treatment that can be applied to the scalp in a
shampoo or cream to help encourage hair to grow again, the
Telegraph reports.
He said: "Hair follicles exist in two stable states - either an
active state or a dormant state. From time to time, they will jump
from one state to another."
"Some of the follicles are just resting in the dormant state and
are waiting for the right signal to make new hair. They are in a
latency period. If you can reduce this latency period, you will
have more hair."
"We have identified a compound and we are going to make a
formulation of it that can be applied to the scalp to wake the
follicle up from its sleeping state to the active state," added
Bernard.
Up to half of all men suffer from androgenic alopecia, the most
common cause of hair loss and thinning in humans. It is estimated
that around eight million women in the UK also suffer excessive
hair loss to some degree.
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