What if the secret to curing baldness has been hiding in your hair all along? University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

At the base of the freshly emptied follicle, cells multiply to form a new hair and the growth cycle begins again. Rinse, wash ...

UVA’s Dr. Lu Q. Le and his team have identified a previously overlooked stem cell population in the upper and middle sections ...

Figure 1: Diagram of the anagen hair follicle, which is in the active growth ... since a minimum number of melanocytes located deep in the hair bulb must be converted to color a single hair ...

Vitamin E is an effective method for treating hair loss. A small study revealed that people taking vitamin E supplements for ...

Hair follicles are unique structures with exceptional ... The inferior unit consists of the follicular bulb, including the keratogenous zone. Possessing multiple receptors for a vast number ...

These medications work by blocking that part of the inflammatory pathway that I introduced earlier, which causes T-cell infiltration of the hair follicle bulb, and therefore associated hair loss ...

In Part I of the review (July/August 2004), the anatomy of hair follicles, the diagnostic approach to diseases leading to hair loss, and nonscarring alopecias were discussed. In this article (Part ...