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)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:50AM
My wife hadn't even noticed I was bald before this story came out. Now she's probably going to leave me.