2 citations
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September 2025 in “Journal of Clinical Medicine” This review highlights the potential of regenerative medicine therapies, such as biologics and emerging technologies, to significantly impact aesthetic and reconstructive procedures in plastic surgery and dermatology.
26 citations
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June 2019 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” This review explores regenerative medicine approaches for vitiligo and alopecia areata, focusing on pathways for repopulating melanocytes and regrowing hair follicles, and summarizes potential treatments without reporting new clinical results.
26 citations
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May 2014 in “BioEssays” This review discusses how neuroendocrine pathways influence keratin regulation in human skin and hair follicles and suggests these pathways as potential targets for new treatments of skin disorders, but reports no clinical results.
6 citations
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August 2024 in “Biomacromolecules” This study introduces a novel in vitro model for clubfoot fibrosis to enable high-throughput drug screening and found that while the model increased collagen deposition, the antifibrotic drug minoxidil effectively inhibited the expression of collagen cross-linking enzymes.
2 citations
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June 2025 in “Biomolecules” This review highlights that gut dysbiosis and bacterial extracellular vesicles are key factors in PCOS pathophysiology, and suggests AI-driven analysis of these profiles could enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment personalization, though ethical concerns like data privacy and bias must be considered.
1 citations
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May 2025 in “Journal of Digital Information Management” This study evaluated different convolutional neural network architectures for diagnosing scalp and hair diseases, and found that VGG16 and VGG19 consistently outperformed other models in accuracy, demonstrating their effectiveness and reliability in this medical application.
February 2026 in “Cosmetics” This study found that bovine milk-derived exosomes (MEV-miRNAs) significantly increased hair follicle dermal papilla cell viability and up-regulated key WNT signaling components in human hair follicles, suggesting potential therapeutic benefits for androgenetic alopecia and telogen effluvium through modulation of hair growth pathways.
December 2025 in “Preprints.org” This study investigated bovine milk-derived exosomes and found they significantly increased dermal papilla cell viability and up-regulated WNT pathway components in human hair follicles, suggesting potential therapeutic value for hair loss disorders like androgenetic alopecia and telogen effluvium.
December 2025 in “Progress in Biomedical Engineering” This article reviews emerging mechanobiological strategies like electrical stimulation and microneedling combined with nanotechnology as non-invasive methods for hair loss treatment, suggesting these approaches could provide futuristic alternatives to current therapies such as minoxidil, finasteride, and hair transplants.
April 2025 in “Journal of Digestive Cancer Research” Milk-derived vesicles are promising for delivering drugs orally and treating various conditions.
December 2024 in “Biomaterials Research” Delivering specific cell clusters into the skin can help regrow hair in mice.
December 2024 in “Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology” This review highlights the potential benefits of using rosemary and kalonji seeds for hair health, focusing on their phytochemical properties, mechanisms of action, and therapeutic potential in treating conditions such as alopecia and dandruff.
November 2024 in “Journal of Natural Remedies” This article reviews the use of herbal ingredients in hair care products, highlighting their potential benefits for scalp health, hair growth, and condition, while also discussing challenges such as individual sensitivities and the importance of transparent labeling.
December 2023 in “Aggregate” In this review, it is discussed how mesenchymal stem cell aggregation plays a crucial role in organ development and has potential applications in organ regeneration through tissue engineering.
22 citations
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January 2017 in “Advanced Healthcare Materials” This study found that thermoresponsive hydrogels can maintain mechanical memory in fibroblasts, enhancing wound healing compared to traditional trypsinized methods.
7 citations
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August 2015 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This study found that cross beam laser is a reliable tool for assessing scalp laxity in hair restoration surgery, with results comparable to the Mayer elasticity scale.
6 citations
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May 2004 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This article discusses various techniques to achieve a cosmetically attractive single donor scar in hair restoration surgery, reporting no new clinical findings.
6 citations
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March 1996 in “The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery” This article discusses a strip donor harvesting technique for hair transplantation and reports no clinical results; the author highlights the importance of anatomical knowledge for successful scar excision.
3 citations
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July 2018 in “Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology” This study found that the sharp scissor technique in hair transplant surgery resulted in a lower hair transection rate without significantly increasing operation time compared to tissue spreader and skin hooks techniques.
3 citations
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January 2010 Refined open donor harvesting techniques can reduce hair follicle damage in hair restoration surgery.
2 citations
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August 2013 in “Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America” This article reviews strategies for planning and executing follicle graft harvesting using the strip technique, discussing procedural details but reporting no new clinical findings.
1 citations
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January 2014 in “Hair transplant forum international” This article invites ISHRS members to contribute insights to the "How I Do It" section, emphasizing shared clinician experiences as vital to advancing standards in hair loss treatment, but it reports no research findings.
1 citations
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July 2010 in “International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery” This abstract appears to be an incomplete instructional note about the importance of the occipital artery and nerve complex in hair transplantation, and it does not report any new research findings.
Quickly fix tissue in formalin after excision to preserve it.
November 2023 in “Facial Plastic Surgery” This study discusses the advantages and disadvantages of two hair graft harvesting methods, strip follicular unit transplantation and follicular unit excision, highlighting their implications for creating effective surgical plans for hair restoration without providing specific new results.
October 2023 in “Facial Plastic Surgery” This review discusses combining follicular unit excision (FUE) and linear strip excision (LSE) donor harvesting methods to optimize graft yield while minimizing donor depletion, but provides no new clinical results.
October 2022 in “Hair Transplantation” This chapter examines common and less common complications associated with the strip method of hair transplantation and discusses management strategies, but it does not report new clinical results.
April 2018 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that combining CelluTome system and RCM is a safe and effective protocol for evaluating wound healing responses in patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
June 2004 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This article presents techniques that help hair restoration surgeons achieve aesthetically pleasing single donor scars after multiple surgeries, enhancing the viability of the single-scar technique.
September 2024 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” Natural extracts like kombucha, marine enzymes, and prebiotics can improve and restore damaged skin.