New way of treatment for baldness

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New way of treatment for baldness

Posted: 04/23/2015 06:49 PM IST
New way of treatment for baldness

Baldness is the medical term used for excessive hair loss from the scalp. Most of the men are suffering from this problem. Many treatments are available to cure baldness but they are expensive and risky. Recently the US researchers have found plucking hair as the new treatment for baldness.

The researchers proved it by carefully plucking 200 strands of hair, one-by-one, from the back of a mouse in a specific pattern which resulted in the growth of around 1, 200 new hair strands in the area. The researchers explain the reason for the fivefold increase could be due to the trauma caused by the hair being plucked triggers an immune response, as the skin follicle sends out a kind of distress signal via the release of inflammatory proteins. This causes immune cells to rush to the site of the injury and secretes a molecule in response and these signals to the plucked follicle, and other skin follicles in the vicinity, which promotes new hair.

The regeneration of hair depends on the pattern of plucking. When the team pulled 200 strands from an area on the mouse’s back exceeding a 6 mm-wide diameter, they didn't observe any regrowth at all. But when they repeated the process, plucking individual strands in circular areas between 3 and 5 mm, they saw some big returns, with between 450 and 1,300 new strands emerging.

The research was led by the researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) in the US, paved the new way to cure baldness.

By Lizitha

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