Histological Findings in Androgenetic Alopecia

    January 1996 in “ Springer eBooks
    Masumi Inaba, Yoshikata Inaba
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    Studysummary This article describes the balding process as a reduction in hair follicle size rather than a decrease in their number, but it reports no new findings.
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    The document "Histological Findings in Androgenetic Alopecia" from 1995 concluded that the process of balding does not result in a decrease in the number of hair follicles, but rather a reduction in their size, a phenomenon first termed "vellus transformation" by Uno et al. in 1969.
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