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Endocrinology article 2001

From: Kevlar
Date: 28 Jun 2001
Time: 01:53:45
Remote Name: 140.142.181.32

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This is a very interesting article I found on the web that talks about most everything you might want to know about hair loss. It might be old news but I have never seen it before. http://physrev.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/81/1/449#SEC11 Particularly interesting to me was:

Although androgens are often hailed as the "... main known hormonal regulators of human hair ..." growth (462), in fact the androgen effect is not fundamental to hair growth but is critical to hair patterning. For example, hair continues to grow on the body (vellus, eyebrow, eyelashes) of the patient with complete absence of functional androgen receptors (270). This suggests that androgens are modifiers and not factors basic to all hair growth or even to hair follicle cycling as such.

This would suggest that Dutasteride, which I have been eagerly awaiting, might have a better chance at re-growing my hair than I thought at first. I say this because if hair continues to grow even in the absence of DHT or other androgens then those hairs that are small but still pigmented on my head may keep growing. Albeit they might be really thin but that to me is better than no hair at all. With a little luck my l-arginine supplements and minoxidil will help to enlarge those follicles. Still there will probably be no hope for the loss of hair at my temples which has been gone for long enough to not have any visible terminal hairs. Maybe the sonic hedgehog wt-recptor agonist will help with that problem in the near future.

Anyway I suggest those of you who understand this to read over it and help me understand it a little better.

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