European Journal of Dermatology
MENUAndrogen responsive genes as they affect hair growth Volume 11, numéro 4, July - August 2001
Illustrations
ARATEC Research PO Box 7, Ocala, FL 34478, USA.
R.W. Keane: University of Miami, Dept Physiology & Biophysics, Miami, Florida, USA.
- Page(s) : 304-8
- Année de parution : 2001
The hair follicle is unique in that it continuously cycles, undergoing stages of growth, involution, and rest throughout life. It is well known that the target tissue active androgen, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) plays a key role in signaling anagen hair follicles into a miniaturized state, and with successive hair cycles, produces smaller, finer, thinner, indeterminate hairs, hence signaling programmed cell death, apoptosis. Finasteride is [...]