Sentences with phrase «called follicle»

Hair begins growth within a little pocket called a follicle where it is nourished by proteins and other materials in the blood.

Each is housed within a sac of cells called a follicle.

Women with PCOS may have enlarged ovaries that contain small collections of fluid called follicles located in each ovary.

Follicular Phase: Potential eggs begin to develop in the ovaries inside small node - like structures called follicles.

Anywhere from a few to a few hundred eggs begin to mature inside sacs called follicles.

This tissue contains numerous structures, called follicles, which are important for the local immune system.

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Broccoli, Kale and Spinach are great for gorgeous locks - and are excellent sources of vitamins C and A, which are needed to produce an oily substance secreted by your hair follicles called sebum.

After an egg is released to be fertilized around week 3 of pregnancy, the follicle in the ovary that it came from — called the corpus luteum — collapses, starts producing the hormone progesterone, and provides nourishment and support for an embryo throughout the first trimester of pregnancy.

And an antioxidant called an isoflavone increases collagen and elastin concentrations, which strengthen the skin matrix holding the follicles in place.

A third approach, called follicular neogenesis, would allow doctors to remove, multiply and then reimplant the stem cells found inside a person's hair follicles.

The outer portion of each ovary is filled with the earliest, dormant form of these egg - carrying follicles, called primordial follicles.

But that skin had only one or two layers of tissue, and lacked features such as hair follicles and the glands that secrete sweat and oil called sebum, he said.

It turned out that the patients had a much rarer disorder called papular atrichia, which destroys the hair follicle.

These hiding spots are called B cell follicles.

The team studied skin cells, called dermal fibroblasts, that help hair follicles develop, wounds heal, and generally maintain the structural integrity of skin.

Once in contact with Tfh, some B cells become activated, migrate to an area of the follicle called the germinal center and start dividing rapidly under influence from Tfh.

Lymph nodes have microscopic compartments called «follicles,» where they store a specific type of immune cells, the B - cells.

Several years ago, scientists discovered stem cells that replenished pigment - making cells, called melanocytes, in hair follicles.

According to new research published in the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers from Stanford and Akira University in Japan identified a new hormone called «R - spondin2» that promotes follicle development and stimulates ovary growth.

According to Dr. Lenzy, the No. 1 cause of hair loss in African - American women is a condition called central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), a disorder in which inflammation and destruction of hair follicles causes scarring and permanent hair loss.

First, a hair follicle contains epithelial cells — a cell type that lines the body's vessels and cavities — as well as a specific kind of adult stem cell called dermal papillae.

However, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Dr. George Cotsarelis, have regenerated follicles in mice by manipulating a gene called Wnt.

The women also had their blood drawn to measure levels of testosterone and other reproductive hormones including dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), which the body can convert into testosterone or a form of estrogen called estradiol, and follicle - stimulating hormone (FSH).

The device works by drawing out glucose from the fluid between cells across hair follicles, which are individually accessed via a miniaturized pixel array platform using a small electric current, in a process called electroosmotic extraction.

Within a hair follicle, there are stem cells that reside in an area called the hair follicle «bulge,» which is a small compartment located where the outer root sheath meets the arrector pili muscle (see Hair Follicle follicle, there are stem cells that reside in an area called the hair follicle «bulge,» which is a small compartment located where the outer root sheath meets the arrector pili muscle (see Hair Follicle follicle «bulge,» which is a small compartment located where the outer root sheath meets the arrector pili muscle (see Hair Follicle Follicle figure).

The whole follicle structure sits on a pad of fibrous tissue called the Arao - Perkins body.

The test Khloé's doctor used it called a basal antral follicle count, he explains: «It tells you how many potential egg sacks would respond to fertility medication in a given cycle.»

This growth factor binds to something called the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), which stimulates the pilosebaceous unit (the follicle) to overproduce sebum (mixture of natural skin oils and skin cells), which can lead to acne lesions.

This peak causes the ovarian follicle to burst at the surface of the ovary, releasing an egg into the fallopian tube — a process called ovulation.

Unfortunately, in people who suffer from hair loss, the body can use the protein called keratin to reduce the acidity, and this is the protein used to build hair follicles.

Tiny follicles, mistakenly called «cysts», usually but not always, surround the ovaries appearing upon an ultrasound as a strand of pearls.

The ability of the follicles to mature an egg and release it may begin «sputtering,» so to speak, a decade before actual menopause, creating menstrual cycles in which a woman does not ovulate, called anovulatory cycles.

Acne is caused by excess oil called sebum which originates in the sebaceous glands at the root of the hair follicles.

These hair follicles are connected to the oil glands, also called sebaceous glands.

He was 57 - years old and on about 15 medications for about five different inflammatory conditions including high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, colitis, reflux, asthma, and an autoimmune disease of his hair follicles called alopecia.

Immune Response in the Skin and Hair Follicles Another common place for the immune response to attack is the skin, with a characteristic skin lesion called Dermatiformis Herpetiformis (it resembles Herpes) with intense burning, itching and blistering skin rash which is usually symmetrically distributed on the elbows, knees and the buttocks.

(27 - 29) If the scalp is involved, this is called Alopecia Areata with patchy hair loss caused by auto - antibodies reacting with the hair follicles.

When a «healthy» woman has her period, her ovaries produce an egg in a tiny fluid - filled sac called a «follicle».

Human hair follicles maintain the natural hair colour by making pigment called melanin.

Often times these follicles are called «cysts».

Open comedones are what we call blackheads, they are pores plugged with dead skin cells from within the follicle and excess sebum which when oxidized with outside air becomes grey or black in color.

During the follicular phase a gland in your brain (located behind the «third - eye») called the pituitary gland shoots an SMS message using a messaging system called FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) to one of your ovaries:

Hair is primarily composed of a protein called keratin and grows from just under the skin's surface from a follicle.

Specialised follicular cells called epithelial cells surround each follicle.

«Shaving can cause irritation, and an infection around the hair follicle called folliculitis,» says ob - gyn Alyssa Dweck, MD, author of The Complete A to Z For Your V. For best results, make sure you wash the area first, then apply a shaving cream or mild soap.

We are not alone even when we are alone: whether we are counting the great garden of bacteria in our guts — alien life forms that keep us alive — or the tiny arthropods called Demodex mites that live in the follicles of our eyelashes.

It is most obvious in the breeds that are commonly called «double - coated», although in reality all dogs except the hairless breeds have both types, and even the Xolo, Crested, Hairless Rat Terrier, etc. have a little hair someplace, and those few follicle sites have both types, if you look hard enough.

A chemical called B - catenin is required for differentiation of skin cells into hair follicles.

The cause is often infection or inflammation at the base of the hair (called hair follicle dysplasia).

The MC5R gene is expressed in the hair follicle glands that produce the oily, waxy substance called sebum that assists in lubrication, water repellency, and thermo - regulation of the skin and hair.