Sentences with phrase «affects hair follicles»

Also Known As: Seasonal Flank Alopecia Transmission or Cause: An incompletely understood disorder which causes seasonally recurrent hair loss on the flanks and may involve photoperiod changes in melatonin and prolactin hormone production which then affects hair follicles.

If the color of your cat's coat has changed it could indicate a skin disease or some type of infection that is affecting the hair follicles (follicular dysplasia).

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Further study showed that the region of human DNA that contained the single nucleotide change associated with blondness specifically affected the expression of KITLG only in hair follicles.

Experiments to address hair follicles affected by hair loss disorders are under way.

It's likely that the drugs that are so effective in enhancing hair growth in the mice could affect the same pathways in human follicles, suggesting they could induce new hair growth and extend the growth of existing hairs in humans.

Depending on which area of the body the red light is used, this can easily affect all skin layers, reaching into blood vessels, lymph pathways, nerves, and hair follicles.

Anabolic Steroids can affect the different parts of the body such as hair follicles, liver, blood, muscles, and bones.

Excessive consumption of alcohol could damage your liver which are two of the most important organs that affect hair loss because they clean the blood of the toxins and hormones that can travel around the body triggering hair follicle miniaturization.

In the year 2013, a study published in «Dermatologic Clinics» mentioned that if the hair follicles do not receive healthy amounts of essential fatty acids, their health can be significantly affected.

Could this be affecting the way our hair follicles respond to DHT, or could some chemical be released that is causing higher levels of DHT?

I once had a patient come in thinking she had «vaginal acne» but it's not technically acne, because acne is a bacterial - based condition that affects the skin, so usually in the vaginal area it's going to be of like a hair follicle issue.

This involves freezing the affected portion of the lid margin with a special probe to destroy the hair follicle.

Skin biopsy of affected areas shows dysplastic (abnormally shaped) hair follicles which are filled with keratin.

Cryoepilation works by freezing the affected area of the eyelid to kill the hair follicle.

Unfortunately Poodles are prone to dermatological issues including sebaceous adenitis, a condition affecting the glands that lubricate the hair follicles and skin.

«In dogs, the fungi commonly infect hair follicles, which causes the affected hair shafts to break off at the skin line resulting in round patches of hair loss.»

Treatment may involve regular bathing to clear the hair follicles, application of insecticidal ointments to the affected areas, or antibiotics.