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    Novel Dual Soft Drug Strategy Enables Development of Topical Androgen Receptor Antagonists with Enhanced Efficacy and Optimized Safety for Androgenetic Alopecia

    July 2026 in “ Figshare ”
    Yan Zhang (8098), Wenqiang Zhang (470965), Fen Tang … Yu Jiao

    Preprint — not peer reviewed. This was posted to a preprint server or data repository. It has not been through a journal's review process, and its findings may change or not hold up.

    Studysummary In this study, researchers optimized the soft drug AR antagonist <b>14-P1</b> to create candidate <b>39</b>, which demonstrated effective AR antagonism and safety in a hair-growth mouse model, showing similar efficacy to pyrilutamide but with quicker onset and a lower risk of systemic toxicity.
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