Ligna Li and Robert Hoffman of AntiCancer, a biotechnology company in San Diego, have perfected a technique for delivering DNA
into hair follicle cells.
Not exact matches
«However, once the dermal papilla
cells are put
into conventional, two - dimensional tissue culture, they revert to basic skin
cells and lose their ability to produce
hair follicles.
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.
The epithelial stem
cells, when implanted
into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different
cell types of human skin and
hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable
hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable
hair regeneration in people.
They then converted the iPS
cells into epithelial stem
cells, normally found at the bulge of
hair follicles.
The stem
cells in the bulge are multipotent epithelial stem
cells, and can become, or differentiate
into, all the epithelial
cell types in the
follicle (including
hair follicles, epidermis, and sebaceous glands)(Oshima et al., 2001).
The group recently produced data showing that stem
cells from human
hair follicles also differentiate
into contractile smooth muscle
cells.
If the
hair follicle contains melanocyte
cells then melanin pigment is incorporated
into the cortex
cells.
The delicate interplay of two chemical signals coaxes stem
cells into becoming
hair follicles, according to new research by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller...
The first shampooing cleanses
hair and scalp of dirt, dead
cells and dust, which would otherwise be massaged back
into the
hair, scalp and
follicle openings if only shampooed once.
A chemical called B - catenin is required for differentiation of skin
cells into hair follicles.
The tumor
cells show minimal organisation
into the local specialized skin structures (such as
hair follicles and their glands).