Sentences with phrase «destroying hair follicles»

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

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

However, if the folliculitis becomes more severe, the inflammation can permanently destroy the hair follicles.

Now we have the Ultra Mach V Sensor Blade System, with six space - age miniature blades plus a seventh that actually travels back in time eight hours to seek and destroy hair follicles before they even have a chance to grow.

The current not only destroys the hair, it also destroys the hair follicle.

Title: A search for possible genetic associations with sebaceous adenitis, an autoimmune disease that destroys hair follicles and leads to hair loss

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

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Doctors diagnosed the problem as alopecia areata, a genetically determined autoimmune disease in which the body's T cells identify hair - follicle cells as foreign invaders and try to destroy them.

Given this, it shouldn't come as a surprise that if these stem cells are destroyed, so is the hair follicle (Ohyama et al., 2006; Ohyama 2007).

We also utilize adjunctive cryotherapy (freezing therapy) to permanently destroy any remaining, aberrantly positioned hair follicle (s) which greatly reduces the potential regrowth of aberrant, ectopic eyelashes.

These devices are set to identify and isolate hair follicles from the rest of the skin area and then destroy them in a targeted manner.