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March 2021 in “Skin health and disease” Better hair loss models needed for research.
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March 2019 in “Open Biology” The document concludes that regenerating functional ectodermal organs like teeth and hair is promising for future therapies.
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February 2018 in “InTech eBooks” PCOS in lean women is a serious health condition with implications beyond fertility, affecting metabolism and increasing cardiovascular disease risk.
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March 2016 in “Toxicologic pathology” Dogs could be good models for studying human hair growth and hair loss.
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