Sentences with phrase «follicle cells so»

Flutamide blocks androgen receptors on hair follicle cells so androgens can't connect to the receptors.

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«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the ficell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fiCell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

The full readout of what genes are on and off in dermal papilla cells has never been collected before, so researchers now have a new list of thousands of genes to study further that may play key roles in hair follicle development.

But hair growth depends on the ability of cells in the hair follicles to keep dividing and so producing cells which die and are built into the hair shaft.

In vitro hair follicles would be useful, so would blood stem cells.

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).