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Finasteride may cause pseudoporphyria, a blistering skin condition.

This report describes a 66-year-old woman's diagnosis of porphyria cutanea tarda, suggested by her painless blisters on sun-exposed areas, pink urine, and elevated urinary porphyrins.

This guide provides an overview of the complex roles and mechanisms of various receptors and channels in pharmacology but does not report new experimental results.

The document concludes that various medications and treatments can have significant, sometimes adverse, effects on health outcomes.

Keratin film can effectively mimic human hair for testing hair damage.

The researchers reported that human hair keratin films exhibit color changes and reduced protein solubility after thermal treatments, suggesting their potential use in evaluating hair thermal damage instead of actual hair samples.

In this study, a collagen sponge with isogenic fibroblasts did not enhance skin graft survival or wound healing in rats, but it did promote re-epithelization, potentially inducing epithelial inclusion cysts.

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This study found that Nourkrin significantly improved hair growth in individuals with hair loss and was well-tolerated, suggesting it may be a viable alternative to pharmacotherapy for androgenetic alopecia.

This study found that hair contains tightly bound lipids such as cholesterol sulfate, cholesterol, fatty alcohols, and free fatty acids, which are resistant to solvent extraction.

This study found that saponin derivatives from P chinensis may effectively block CRH receptor function and could be used to treat stress-induced hair loss.

This study found that androgens decreased splenic macrophage FcgammaR expression and impaired the clearance of IgG-coated cells in an experimental guinea pig model.

This study found that in Taiwanese men with androgenetic alopecia, finasteride 1 mg/day over 1 year slowed hair loss and promoted hair growth, with minimal adverse effects.

In this study, RNA-sequencing identified differentially expressed genes, including FGF5, FGFR1, and RRAS, that affect the hair follicle growth cycle in Inner Mongolian Cashmere goats.

This study found that dermal papilla cell-derived exosomes may enhance hair follicle regeneration during wound healing by boosting fibroblast hair-inducing capacity and activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.

This review discusses the most popular non-surgical cosmetic procedures pursued by men and highlights the importance of sex-specific considerations in treating male cosmetic patients; it reports no new clinical results.

This study found that men with early-onset androgenic alopecia may be partially resistant to the cardiometabolic benefits of bromocriptine compared to those with normal hair growth.

This study found that KSR1 is essential for v-Ha-ras-mediated skin tumor formation in mice but not for MT-driven mammary tumor genesis, suggesting its potential as a therapeutic target in Ras/MAPK signaling.

In this study, researchers established a mouse model for single follicular unit transplantation and reported successful integration and piloerection of transplanted hair follicles with surrounding host tissues.

Procyanidins and phosphatidic acids help promote hair growth.

This study found that in sleep-deprived rats, increased 5α-reductase expression and activity in the prefrontal cortex contributed to psychosis- and mania-like symptoms, which finasteride ameliorated in a dose-dependent manner.

This review discusses various cancer prevention strategies, summarizing established successes like tamoxifen for breast cancer and mixed outcomes of preventive trials like finasteride for prostate cancer, and reports no new results.

This study suggests that minoxidil sulfate and pinacidil do not activate K channel currents in hair follicles, indicating their hair growth effects may occur through other mechanisms like increased blood flow.