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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the death-to-toupees dept.

Potential new cure found for baldness

A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis.

Enhanced hair growth is a side-effect of a different drug, cyclosporine A, used to treat autoimmune diseases. And researchers found it also inhibited a protein, SFRP1, that blocks a molecular pathway, WNT, vital for the growth of many tissues, including hair.

The new cure uses another drug, Way-316606, that was designed to inhibit SFRP1 as treatment for osteoporosis.

Project leader Dr Nathan Hawkshaw said it could "make a real difference to people who suffer from hair loss".

Also at CNBC.

Identifying novel strategies for treating human hair loss disorders: Cyclosporine A suppresses the Wnt inhibitor, SFRP1, in the dermal papilla of human scalp hair follicles (open, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003705) (DX)


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  • (Score: 1) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:46AM (1 child)

    by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:46AM (#677701)

    it needed curing. Maybe they can find a cure for black hair while they're at it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:50AM (#677778)

    My wife hadn't even noticed I was bald before this story came out. Now she's probably going to leave me.