Highlight from the study:
DPCs could make new hair follicles with epidermal cells, and have an immunomodulatory function to enable allogeneic transplantation. In addition, we can expand large quantities of DPCs with hair inductivity using spheroid culture, hypoxia condition, and growth factor supplement. ‘Off-the-shelf’ DPC therapy could be effective and economical, and therefore promising for hair regeneration.
From Science Direct
Dermal papilla cells (DPCs) are specialized cells located in the dermal papilla (at the base of the hair follicles — underneath the skin). These cells play a key role in hair growth and hair follicle development. They’re involved in the communication and regulation of hair growth cycles.
If it’s possible to replicate these cells by the thousands, it may be possible to also replicate their functions, which are in part to increase hair growth.
The holy grail of hair loss treatments?
The holy grail would of course be a cheap treatment that can be safely applied at home by anyone, without need of surgery and without side effects. The problem with all current effective hair loss treatments is they are none of these things. They are either expensive, require surgey, have major side effects or don’t work.
But what if you could have some of your DPCs extracted, cultured, multiplied and sent back to you so you could apply a completley safe solution to your scalp that could multiply hair growth? Or even, what if you could do all of this at home with a simple device? This would surely be the holy grail of hair loss treatments.
Mind boggling results
I am frankly mind-boggled by these results. Take a look at these:
Hair loss type: | Androgenic alopecia |
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Measurement: | 6 months |
Increase | Hair density: 21.1 hairs/cm2, Hair diameter 5 mm |
Hair loss type: | Androgenic alopecia |
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Measurement: | 6 months |
Increase | Hair density 145 hairs/cm2 (M), 70 hairs/cm2 (F) Hair diameter 50.4 mm (M), 24.6 mm (F) |
More to come on this soon…