High Doses of Cobalt Inhibited Hair Follicle Development in Rex Rabbits

    December 2019 in “ World rabbit science
    Lei Liu, Gao Qingrong, C. Wang, Zhiren Fu, K. Wang, F. C. Li
    TLDR High doses of cobalt stopped hair growth in rabbits.
    The study on 180 Rex rabbits found that high doses of cobalt (6.4 mg/kg) significantly inhibited hair follicle development by decreasing hair follicle density and increasing BMP2 and BMP4 gene expression in skin tissue. Lower cobalt levels had no effect. The inhibition was linked to suppressed protein levels of p-mTOR and p-ribosomal protein S6 kinase, indicating that high cobalt concentrations affected hair follicle development through the mTOR-BMP signaling pathway.
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