November 2023 in “Indian journal of surgery” This study found that platelet-rich gel is a simple and effective non-surgical method for healing exposed skull injuries, resulting in complete healing with minimal scars and sparse hair growth in all patients.
7 citations
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March 2002 in “Aesthetic Surgery Journal” This article describes techniques for hair restoration surgery, including using intradermal sutures for donor area closure and employing the retroauricular ellipse from a facelift as a donor site, but reports no new clinical results.
3 citations
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July 2018 in “International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH” This paper compiles previously observed similarities in biomagnetic fields emitted by human hair and mouse vibrissa follicles, with findings supporting distinctive patterns of biomagnetic activity skewed to one side.
7 citations
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December 1971 in “Calcified Tissue Research” Hair follicles in injured skin can quickly accumulate minerals, especially calcium and phosphorus.
March 2026 in “Calcified Tissue International” This review discusses the complex role of the EDA pathway in vertebrate skeletal development, emphasizing its interaction with other morphogenic pathways to influence skeletal diversity, but reports no new experimental results.
28 citations
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March 2017 in “Endocrinology” In this study, the researchers found that vitamin D and calcium signaling in keratinocytes are essential for normal skin regeneration after wounding, with deficiencies significantly delaying wound closure and re-epithelialization in mice.
8 citations
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April 2001 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This proposal presents a standardized system for naming areas of the balding scalp to improve communication among hair restoration professionals, defining major regions and introducing new landmarks.
9 citations
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July 2017 in “Dermatologic Therapy” Two elderly men developed scalp inflammation after using a gel for skin lesions, which healed with treatment except for some permanent hair loss.
June 2011 in “Journal of clinical and experimental investigations” This study suggests that oral zinc sulphate may be an effective and safe treatment for thallium poisoning, particularly in improving dermatological symptoms and reducing the progression of the condition.
25 citations
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April 1972 in “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” This study found that variations in chromium levels along individual hair shafts reflect changes in the individual's chromium nutritional status over time, rather than environmental exposure.
5 citations
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March 2017 in “Natural Product Research” This study identified and characterized eight compounds, including furanocoumarins and pterocarpans, from the aerial parts of Bituminaria basaltica, with β-caryophyllene and germacrene D as main constituents of its essential oil.
86 citations
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August 2011 in “Toxicological sciences” In this study, researchers found that TCDD exposure accelerated differentiation and altered gene expression in human epidermal cells, indicating the epidermal barrier as a target of TCDD-activated AHR.
August 2018 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” This study found that while both conventional care and teledermatology showed similar clinical response rates for treating actinic keratosis with imiquimod 5% cream, teledermatology was associated with higher treatment failure and local reaction rates.
April 2014 in “Significance” Unconventional home remedies can sometimes show surprising results.
11 citations
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September 1973 in “Canadian Journal of Botany” This study found that strontium cannot fully substitute for calcium in oat seedling root and root hair growth, though it may help mitigate toxic effects from other ions.
4 citations
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April 2025 in “Antioxidants” This study found that α-ketoglutarate protected dermal papilla cells from oxidative stress by enhancing the Nrf2 pathway and mitigating cell damage through the ERK/Nrf2 axis.
30 citations
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July 1993 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” 12 citations
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May 2016 in “British Journal of Dermatology” This report describes a rare case of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita in a child developing during therapy with squaric acid dibutyl ester for alopecia areata, suggesting a possible link between the medication and disease onset.
June 2022 in “International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH” This article discusses the role of the hair follicle as a miniorgan involved in bioelectricity and energy transfer in living organisms, but it reports no new research findings.
12 citations
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July 2011 in “Experimental Dermatology” This study found that mEGF ethosomal delivery systems mainly penetrated mice skin through the pilosebaceous unit and successfully induced hair follicles to transition from the telogen to anagen phase.
125 citations
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August 1992 in “Development” This study found that implanting isolated adult rat dermal papillae into ear cuts led to the emergence of unusually large vibrissa-type hair follicles, demonstrating their capacity to induce specific hair fiber characteristics.
This study developed a new analytical method to identify a wide range of endocrine disrupting compounds in full-term amniotic fluid, revealing diverse substances with potential endocrine activity.
8 citations
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February 1968 in “Australian Journal of Zoology” This study describes the structure and composition of the epidermal horny layer in elephant seals, noting that its keratinized cells are attached without a specialized fission zone, differing from the sloughing mechanism in reptiles.
2 citations
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March 2012 in “Hiroshima University Acedemic Information Repository (Hiroshima University)” This article discusses the emergence of "Kainar syndrome" among residents near a nuclear test site in Kazakhstan and names brucellosis combined with vitamin deficiency as the suspected cause, without attributing it to nuclear tests.
October 2025 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This review highlights the critical role of iron in skin functions and suggests potential dermatologic therapies targeting the iron-skin axis.
13 citations
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September 1989 in “International Journal of Dermatology” Carbamazepine may cause reversible nail detachment.
46 citations
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May 2018 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” This study found that the vitamin D receptor is essential for the self-renewal, migration, and differentiation of epidermal stem cells during skin wound healing in mice.
11 citations
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October 2020 in “PLoS ONE” This study found that scalp cooling markedly reduces cellular uptake of anthracycline drugs in human keratinocytes, partially explaining its protective effect against chemotherapy-induced cytotoxicity.
November 2022 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that "early" transit amplifying cells, marked by CD271, are the first keratinocyte stem cell progenitors with distinct features, playing a significant role in early epidermal differentiation and regeneration.
This study in a nine-year-old boy from Lebanon identified a gene mutation (c.1066dup p.(Arg356Profs*16)) associated with a rare inborn error of immunity, characterized by craniosynostosis, jaundice, and several other symptoms, expanding the known genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of this condition.