Sentences with phrase «form of alopecia»

Many French Bulldog lovers believe that the blue coat color is linked to a form of alopecia (hair loss) called blue dog alopecia.

While there are a variety of factors that could cause a cat to start losing its hair, almost all older cats that are diagnosed experience some form of alopecia, but nervous disorders like over-grooming can also cause cats to lose their hair.

Zlotogorski pointed out the papules (tiny bumps) on the heads, elbows, and knees of the atrichia patients — subtle manifestations that help clinicians distinguish the disease from the autoimmune form of alopecia universalis.

While there are forms of alopecia unrelated to inflammation, inflammation can contribute to hair loss for a large number of hair loss sufferers.

Less common forms of alopecia include the autoimmune diseases cicatricial (scarring) alopecia and alopecia areata.

Some forms of alopecia (hair loss) are caused by a lack of testosterone and can be effectively treated with a testosterone hormone replacement.

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An estimated one - third of African - American women suffer from traction alopecia, making it the most common form of hair loss among that group.

Using the original Pakistani diagnosis, she suggested that the family was suffering from a form of congenital alopecia.

«New hair growth mechanism discovered: Faulty immune cells may play role in alopecia, other forms of baldness.»

The new study — published online May 26 in Cell — suggests that defects in Tregs could be responsible for alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss, and could potentially play a role in other forms of baldness, including male pattern baldness, Rosenblum said.

It remains to be seen if JAK inhibitors can reawaken hair follicles that have been suspended in a resting state because of androgenetic alopecia (which causes male and female pattern baldness) or other forms of hair loss.

Androgenetic alopecia is a common hereditary form of hair loss in both men and women.

The most common compulsive behaviors in cats are wool sucking or fabric eating (a form of pica) and excessive licking, hair chewing or hair pulling (called psychogenic alopecia).

One form of scabies affects the skin and causes intense skin itching (pruritus) and hair loss (alopecia).