Experts claim to discover 'cause' of male baldness

[Fizzball]

"It is not simply a lack of hair, but rather a problem with the new hair that is made."

What this study has proven is people which are bold actually do have hair follicles but instead have malfunctioned during the normal process of hair development and instead shrunk to a microscopic level, it was long thought by many that bald people had a depletion of hair follicle stem cells which are required to grow hair, the study also goes on to prove that bald people have the same number of stem cells as those with hair, all that is really needed is some way of producing more follicle progenitor cells which in turn would allow the hair to grow to a healthy state again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12112673

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2011/01/0 ... -baldness/

[Jacob]

Not that this is the "cure"..but this is from Regeron/the Pristeen
hGH topical:

All these diverse efficacies of NL-hGH
seem to indicate that somehow the skin
stem cells of the bulge or transiently amplifying
progenitor cells derived from
the bulge stem cells in the hair follicle
(Fig. 11), are influenced by the presence
of exogenous hGH and involved in the
pharmaceutical and cosmetic outcomes
of the topical NL-hGH application. Based
on this rationale, we further examined
whether hair (follicle) number or the hair
growth cycle of the mouse is affected by
the application of NL-hGH, using minoxidil
as a positive control. Mice were treated
for 2 weeks with NL-hGH after depilation
and before peritoneal BrdU injection
and subsequently sacrificed 3 hrs
after the injection. The results clearly
showed that NL-hGH application on the
back of the mouse increased not only the
hair number but potentially the hair
length and thickness. As, in a given hair
bulb, a more number of actively proliferating hair matrix cells is correlated
with longer duration of anagen phase,
thus with longer and thicker hair (17).
Minoxidil influenced on the hair number
as well, but not the hair length or thickness.
These results are summarized in
Fig. 12. Therefore NL-hGH was superior
to minoxidil in increasing both the hair
number and possibly the hair length and
thickness in the mouse experiments.

[doke]

is it right that retina a does something for cells on the scalp as in tretinoin as well thats why it works well with minox in some? :-"

[Fizzball]

Here is an interesting audio interview with Dr. Gary Hitzig concerning some Acell research which may coincide with this research being discussed in this thread.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showpost.p ... tcount=120

This interview is extremely interesting in all aspects, it is fairly long (40min) but I highly recommend it.