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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:35AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:35AM (#677747) Journal

    Yeah, this crap makes me sick at the soul level in ways very few other things have. There has *got* to be a way to block it. Maybe some half-automated process that regex-matches on certain phrases and flags posts for review by staff? I mean, they were able to filter out the DN guy...

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