Hair serves an important cosmetic function for humans, and the hair follicle produces sweat gland products that help to control body temperature and release pheromones 3. Billions of people ...

Hair follicles are one of the few immunoprivileged parts of the body -- that is, they are protected from the immune system so the body doesn't treat them as foreign and attack them. Researchers ...

During anagen, the hair follicle will produce a new shaft–the part of the follicle that pokes above the skin. “The anagen phase, where hair actively grows, is significantly longer for head ...

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 ...

Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder that causes non-scarring hair loss on the scalp and body that is experienced by almost 2% ...

One of the selected cDNA fragments (cDS446, 390 bp) was expressed in embryonic epidermis and absent from the dl OVE1B genome, suggesting that it is part of ... of early hair follicle markers ...

Typical are so-called hair tufts, where multiple hair shafts emerge from one dilated follicle opening. This is caused by fibrosis of adjacent follicular units and retention of telogen hairs within ...