30 citations
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October 2016 in “Current research in translational medicine” This essay reviews the role of human scalp hair follicles in the "brain-skin connection," highlighting their dual function as targets and sources of neurohormones, without reporting new experimental results.
2 citations
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December 2008 in “Clinical and Experimental Dermatology” This case report describes a 10-year-old girl with a cosmetically concerning forehead lesion and a history of right frontal headaches, featuring a small palpable and pulsatile erythematous lesion with associated macular erythema.
99 citations
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January 2004 in “Progress in brain research” This review examines the role of neurotrophins in hair follicle development and remodeling, highlighting potential therapeutic applications for hair growth disorders, but it reports no new empirical findings.
May 2015 in “European Journal of Paediatric Neurology” This study describes three additional cases of encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis, emphasizing the importance of examining patients with ocular and ipsilateral skin lesions for this rare neurocutaneous disorder.
87 citations
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June 2010 in “Stem Cell Research & Therapy” This study demonstrated that epidermal neural crest stem cells and bone marrow-derived stem cells migrated toward inflammatory brain lesions in rats and were successfully tracked using noninvasive MRI.