A look into the future for a baldness cure
The limits of modern medicine are driven constantly forwards and new discoveries on a daily basis. Despite this search for a cure baldness seems to have been remarkably slow. This despite the number of people who would benefit, that the huge wealth would cure hair loss, made on the back. It is common for research to develop very quickly when it made the prospect of a lot of money. At last, science seems to bethat some roads in the direction of the subsequent production of a cure, is at least acceptable to a large number of people suffering from hair loss.
There are two important areas in which scientific research is driven in a moment. In America, include the ideas are to promote the existing scalp tissue to produce brand new follicles that those who will replace possibly lost. It has been shown that cells in the hair follicle bulge stem cells are ableProduction of cells needed to produce a new hair follicles. Results were first seen in the healing process of skin wounds. These stem cells went to the new skin cells and follicle cells, as the wounded tissue started to produce healing. It has now been found that the new stem cells from ordinary skin cells are actually in the tissue. Somehow, the wounded tissue produces chemical signals that the ability to go to the normal skin cells into stem cells, which then can be new toproduce hair follicle cells.
All work is now focused on the genes responsible for the production of these chemical signals. Hopefully, the ability to identify and then to synthesize these chemical messengers in the laboratory to manufacture a drug in the situation, the hair follicles in bald areas of the scalp would repopulate lead. So far, all research with transgenic mice, the mice, the sections of the human DNA have been doing in their making, so that the cells behavemore like human cells.
In Britain, research has focused on cloning existing hair follicles. This would follicles from the back of the head, where they come to grow. The procedure is called the follicular implantation and studies are underway in humans. The procedure involves the extraction of about 100 cells, dermal papillae from the back of the head. These cells are responsible for hair growth. The cells are then grown and multiplied many times in number, in aspecial cell culture medium. These cultured cells are then injected into the scalp and their millions go to the new hair follicle cells to produce or to rejuvenate hair follicles that have gone to the decline. Very soon people it can take up to 1,000 tiny injections of these cells into the scalp to produce the required number of replacement hair and a reasonable coverage of the scalp. The actual widespread use of this technology is probably five yearsremoved.
Of course, these two techniques, a great advance on existing methods of transplantation would be. It would be used far less surgery and this would be the acceptance of patients a great help. In the end we are all really looking for the magic solution that we rub on our scalp and hair appear only at night. That would be a future hair loss cure is worth a look forward.
