This study established age-adjusted reference intervals for hair cortisol in children from birth to 18 years, finding higher cortisol levels in infants possibly linked to slower hair growth.
January 2024 in “Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)”
This study developed a method to measure local steroid hormone concentrations in hair, providing new insights into hormone dynamics associated with androgenetic alopecia.
December 2023 in “Kiểm nghiệm và An toàn thực phẩm/Kiểm nghiệm và An toàn thực phẩm (online)”
This study developed a liquidchromatography with tandemmassspectrometry method to detect sex hormones in health supplements from Hanoi, Vietnam, finding three out of 16 samples contained sex hormones, including banned testosterone at low levels (~0.5 mg/kg).
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February 2014 in “Analytical Letters”
This study developed a fast and sensitive ultra-high performance liquidchromatography method to quantify ketoconazole in antidandruff emulsions, showing comparable results to labeled concentrations.
Finasteride and Nizoral shampoo with Ketoconazole are used for hair loss treatment. LiquidChromatography–MassSpectrometry (LC-MS) is recommended over Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for more accurate DHT testing.