A Method for Culturing Human Hair Follicle Cells

January 1981 in “ British Journal of Dermatology ”

P.J.J.M. Weterings, A.J.M. Vermorken, H. Bloemendal

TLDR A new method helps grow human hair cells using a cow eye lens.

The document described a pioneering method for culturing human hair follicle cells using the bovine eye lens capsule as a substrate. This approach allowed for the formation of growing colonies of diploid keratinocytes in a culture medium supplemented with hydrocortisone and insulin, with approximately 70% of the original follicles successfully forming these colonies.

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