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This study explores the design of responsive drug carriers based on the tumor microenvironment to improve targeting and reduce side effects in cancer treatment, using a model of delivering curcumin with a responsive polymer carrier and evaluating potential errors due to cancer cell heterogeneity.

This study highlights factors contributing to increasing seborrheic alopecia among teenagers, including hormonal, lifestyle, and psychological influences, and suggests integrated treatment strategies including medication, lifestyle adjustments, and psychological interventions.

This case report observed that a patient experienced worsening alopecia and scarring after medical ozone therapy, with subsequent improvement following surgical intervention and systemic hyperbaric oxygenation.

This study found that estrogen receptor beta, not alpha, is the main mediator of estrogen action in human skin and hair follicles, suggesting a distinct role in these tissues.

Certain fungi and bacteria help orchid seeds germinate and plants grow better.

This study concluded that albumin-bound testosterone is biologically important and significantly contributes to testosterone bioavailability in women receiving spironolactone.

This review discusses how acute exposures to environmental and internal stressors can quickly alter skin functions, leading to various dermatological symptoms, and calls for more research on these short-term effects.

In this study, persistent ringworm infections in dairy calves appeared resistant to standard topical treatments and showed a potential risk of spreading to human attendants.

This study found that patients with androgenetic alopecia had deficiencies in certain trace elements and vitamins, which were linked to distinct patterns of hair loss connected to androgen levels.

This review highlights that idiopathic hirsutism is characterized by local hyperandrogenization affecting hair growth, without other signs of hyperandrogenism, and shows no new results; racial differences in prevalence are noted but not in androgenic steroids.

This article discusses the role of dermal papilla and dermal sheath cells in the hair cycle and reviews finasteride and minoxidil's mechanisms in promoting hair growth, but presents no new clinical findings.

This study found that iron deficiency anemia is a key factor in the development of telogen effluvium, and higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels in TE patients may be linked to increased UV exposure.

In this study, a marine protein-based agent improved hair growth in subjects with various types of hair loss over a 12-month period, with good tolerability and no reported side effects.

Finasteride improved hidradenitis suppurativa in kids without side effects.

Post-finasteride syndrome causes various symptoms in men using finasteride, with no known cure.

Acne is common in women, often hormone-related, negatively affects quality of life, and requires various treatments.

This study reports that PDRN, commonly used for wound healing, may also have anti-melanogenesis and potential skin whitening effects in both experimental models and clinical settings.

This review discusses idiopathic hirsutism and suggests that combination treatment, including androgen suppression and cosmetic methods, is most effective, but notes that its pathogenesis remains unclear.

This article reviews acromegaloid facial appearance syndrome and presents a case in a 57-year-old woman, emphasizing the need for more cases to understand its clinical features and inheritance patterns.

This review discusses various treatment options for alopecia areata, noting a lack of consensus on grading and treatment algorithms, and reports no new clinical results.

This article discusses the perspectives of clinicians and patients on alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder with significant psychosocial impacts, highlighting the unpredictability and limited effectiveness of current treatments as well as the key unmet needs and gaps in care.

This study found that PGRP-S expression in mouse epidermis is specific to certain hair follicle epithelia, depending on the skin region, and can be transiently induced in flank skin hair follicle epithelium after exposure to Staphylococcus aureus, suggesting a role in environmental surveillance.

This analytical review of alopecia treatments in the US found that drugs like minoxidil and finasteride are most affordable and effective, while newer JAK inhibitors show significant clinical results but are cost-prohibitive; the study stresses individualizing treatment based on financial capability and alopecia type.

This article evaluated evidence on finasteride's effects on male reproductive health, finding contradictory data about its adverse effects, but consensus that such cases are infrequent in research and clinical settings.

This review concluded that interleukin-17 is involved in the development of female-pattern baldness, suggesting a potential inflammatory role in the condition’s underlying causes.

This study found that pubic skin fibroblasts respond to androgens, increasing 5α-reductase activity via an androgen receptor-mediated mechanism, suggesting its potential as a marker of androgen action in vitro.

This review outlines pregnancy risks in systemic lupus erythematosus and emphasizes that active lupus nephritis at conception increases the risk of flares and poor obstetric outcomes; it reports no new clinical findings.

This systematic review reports that for patients with underlying dermatologic disorders who contracted COVID-19, most experienced mild to moderate exacerbation of their skin conditions and were managed similarly to the general population, suggesting treatment discontinuation during acute infection may prevent severe recurrence.

This study provided the first published case reports of alopecia associated with the use of quetiapine.