alopecia

New gene for hairloss

...less can get an extreme form of a condition called alopecia universalis, in which eyebrows, eyelashes and body hair fail to develop. Babies are born with scalp hair, but it fails to regrow after being shaved, as is the custom in the Pakistani family in which the gene was identified. Other work has shown that...

Breakthrough in cancer therapy

...s type of hair loss, known as chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA), is a frequent side effect of cancer therapy and is often very distressing for patients at a vulnerable time in their lives.// Currently, there is no effective way to stop this type of hair loss. The only way doctors can attempt to minimise ha...

Anticancer Properties of Vitamin D Could Be Separated From Other Functions

... “We found a mutation which caused rickets but not alopecia but which still allowed beta catenin to bind to the vitamin D receptor.” If indeed a drug highlighting the anti-cancer property of the vitamin can be developed, it could be useful in early stage cancers, but not in advanced or terminal cancers, “That...

Anticancer Properties of Vitamin D Revealed

...ptor. Most of these patients had both rickets and alopecia (baldness). However a small number of families had... “We found a mutation which caused rickets but not alopecia but which still allowed beta catenin to bind to the vitamin D receptor,” he said. This suggested to ...

World Largest Hair Congress Convene in Vancouver

...air follicle and replaces it with scar tissue, and alopecia areata, an autoimmune skin disease resulting in hair loss, to more common disorders such as male pattern hair loss and women who have too much hair. Session topics include chemotherapy-induced hair loss, tissue engineering of hair follicles, nutritio...