Good News for Men

 

There is good news for the men? Especially for men who do not want to have a bald head. Now the cause of male pattern baldness has been discovered biologically. In a study of bald men and laboratory mice, scientists from the United States found a protein that triggers hair loss. From there, they were heading towards the development of beige that directly treat baldness. This report was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.As it is known, most of the men go bald in middle age. Approximately 80 percent of men experience hair loss until the age of 70 years.Male hormone testosterone plays an important role in baldness. Similarly genetic factors. Both causes hair follicles to shrink and eventually become very small and invisible naked eye. And behold, bald head.Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have analyzed the gene that kicks in when he started balding. They found that a key protein called prostaglandin D synthase increased in the cells of hair follicles located in bald scalp, not the hair in the area.The rats in the experiment had higher levels of the protein in high levels when completely bald. While the transplanted human hair stopped growing when given the protein.Prof. George Cotsarelis of the dermatology department of the University of Pennsylvania who led the study, said, "Basically, we prove that the protein prostaglandin increases in bald scalp in men. Protein that inhibits hair growth. So we identified a target for treating male pattern baldness. "
Inhibition of hair growth is triggered when the protein is bound to a receptor in the hair follicle cells, said Prof. Cotsarelis. Several drugs that target this protein has been identified. Some of them are already in clinical trials.They say there is potential to develop drugs that can be applied to the scalp to prevent baldness. The possibility also could regrow hair on bald head already. 

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