A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration may have developed a cure for baldness quite by accident while conducting a study on stress effecting gastrointestinal functions. Findings of the study appears in the online journal PloS.
As reported in a UCLA news release, a chemical compound ??? a peptide called astressin-B ??? was injected into mice to block the action of the stress hormone called corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF. Their goal was to see how well the chemical compound blocked the action of the CRF, and how it affected the gastrointestinal tract function. The mice that were used in the study were aged and had no hair on their backs.
Three months later, the researchers checked back on the progress of the mice and discovered all of the mice had regrown hair on their previously bald backs.
According to Million Mulugeta, adjunct professor of medicine in the division of digestive diseases as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, ???This could open new venues to treat hair loss in humans through the modulation of the stress hormone receptors, particularly hair loss related to chronic stress and aging.???
UCLA and the Salk Institute have applied for a patent on the use of the astressin-B peptide for hair growth.
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As reported in a UCLA news release, a chemical compound ??? a peptide called astressin-B ??? was injected into mice to block the action of the stress hormone called corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF. Their goal was to see how well the chemical compound blocked the action of the CRF, and how it affected the gastrointestinal tract function. The mice that were used in the study were aged and had no hair on their backs.
Three months later, the researchers checked back on the progress of the mice and discovered all of the mice had regrown hair on their previously bald backs.
According to Million Mulugeta, adjunct professor of medicine in the division of digestive diseases as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, ???This could open new venues to treat hair loss in humans through the modulation of the stress hormone receptors, particularly hair loss related to chronic stress and aging.???
UCLA and the Salk Institute have applied for a patent on the use of the astressin-B peptide for hair growth.
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