vaccine that promises to cure alopecia
There are many reasons why you lose hair. The most common cause is a hereditary factor. Currently the most effective way to hide alopecia are hair transplantHowever, hope comes with the discovery vaccine this could stimulate Hair Growth.
This is the end? hair transplantation? The scientific world is optimistic about the possibility of stopping baldness. Keep reading to find out all the details.
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Why does alopecia occur?
Spain It is the second country with the largest number of bald people (42.6%) after the Czech Republic (42.79%).
There are many reasons why men especially lose hair, as well as various types of baldness:
- The one that comes after infection or chemotherapy.
- Alopecia areataproduct of an autoimmune disease.
- Androgenetic alopeciathe most common type of baldness.
The latter is a type frequent alopecia in men, and it first appears around the crown and forehead.
Typically this happens when testosteronemale sex hormone, converted to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and supplies blood Hair follicles decreases, causing hair to weaken and fall out.
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Goodbye hair transplant boom?
To date hair transplant They are a salvation for those who consider alopecia a problem.
Thus, hair care clinics have been growing all over the world for several decades now. In fact, it is estimated that more 4 million people in the world have undergone hair transplantation hide baldness.
Perhaps the hope of creating a vaccine for alopecia puts clinics specializing in this issue under control? They managed to occupy an important place in the economy, but only in Madrid city they reached exponential growth of 300% in one year.
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Hope against alopecia
According to a prestigious publication Magazine “New Scientist”10 years ago, cell biologist Karl Köhler of Harvard University accidentally discovered a key advance in the field. hair loss.
At that time from experiment with inner ear cellsIn the case of skin, Köhler’s research team found that when they were cultured, layers of skin (dermis and epidermis) were formed and, if allowed to grow, they developed hair follicles. “spots” of skin.
As Maxim Plikus, a biologist and researcher at the University of California, recently told New Scientist magazine, this discovery opened a new way to solve the problem of alopecia and this is the “turning point.” Why?
Since the discovery of Köhler and his team of scientists, the path to replace dermal papilla cells which are found at the root of every hair as they are naturally lost through successive hair growth cycles until they are completely gone.
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The end of alopecia?: Vaccine may stimulate hair growth
Based on Köhler’s discovery, Maxim Pilkus continued this direction and published a study in which he claimed to have found a mechanism for promoting new hair growth.
Pilkus and his team of experts discovered that the key was in a molecule called SCUBE3which can promote hair growth and provide therapeutic treatment for androgenetic alopecia: responsible for 95% bald spots.
“At different periods of the life cycle of a hair follicle, the same thing happens dermal papilla cells may send signals that trigger new hair growth,” explained Plikus, the study’s author.
Regarding the discovery, the biologist explains: “We found that SCUBE3 moleculewhich the cells of the dermal papilla naturally produce, is a messenger that “tells” neighboring hair stem cells that they have begun to divide, heralding the start of new hair growth.”
In short, Plicus understands that this molecule can be administered by injecting it directly into the scalp. But there is another alternative – to use it like vaccines that change Messenger RNA (mRNA).
To know safety SCUBE3 molecule as medicine, According to New Scientist magazine, the Amplifica subsidiary has entered the initial phase of clinical trials.