11 citations
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May 2022 in “Journal of immunology research” This review characterizes breast implant illness and its autoimmune symptoms, reporting an association between breast implants and autoimmune diseases, with explantation relieving symptoms in over half of patients.
9 citations
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June 2014 in “British Journal of Dermatology” The study found that balding scalps have more thin hairs and larger oil glands, which might contribute to skin conditions related to hair loss.
8 citations
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December 2017 in “Current Opinion in Cell Biology” This review discusses advances in 3D bioengineering technologies for regenerating complex oral organs and suggests they could play a key role in future organ replacement therapy.
6 citations
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October 2021 in “Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery” In this study, eyebrow restoration using FUE-harvested single hair follicle grafts was explored, emphasizing the importance of donor hair selection, placement technique, and postoperative care in achieving optimal results, while highlighting challenges such as scarring and skin perfusion.
5 citations
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February 2017 in “Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America” Improve chin and perioral scars with surgery, resurfacing, and other therapies, tailored to each patient.
4 citations
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November 2003 in “Annals of Plastic Surgery” This study reports successful restoration of congenital pubic alopecia using tissue transfers from the temporoparietal scalp, noting significant hair growth in the transplanted tissue.
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July 2025 in “The Open Dermatology Journal” This study explores the transformative role of tissue engineering in cosmetics, highlighting innovations like lab-grown skin and personalized grafts that enhance product efficacy, offer ethical alternatives to animal testing, and address aesthetic issues such as scarring and aging.
May 2026 in “Organoid Research” This review highlights recent advancements in the engineering of skin organoids using hydrogels, which improve their structural and functional fidelity by supporting the architecture and integration of vascular and neural components, promising to enhance regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and complex skin disorder studies.
February 2026 in “Optics” This study demonstrates that polarized second harmonic generation imaging effectively monitors wool fiber stretching, revealing significant structural changes in keratin alignment that improve textile performance.
July 2025 in “Bioactive Materials” This review summarizes advancements in biomedical engineering for hair follicle regeneration, highlighting strategies like cell transplantation and tissue engineering to reconstruct hair follicles, and discusses both their technical limitations and potential future innovations in regenerative medicine.
May 2025 in “The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal” This review discusses the use of adipose tissue and platelet-rich plasma in tissue repair and regeneration, noting their promise in surgical outcomes but emphasizing the need for further research to optimize therapies.
June 2024 in “Annals of the College of Medicine Mosul/Annals of the College of Medecine” This study explored the use of microneedling for dermatological disorders, highlighting its benefits like increased collagen and elastin production, dermal thickening, and skin rejuvenation, making it suitable for conditions such as scars, stretch marks, and photoaged skin.
April 2024 in “Surgical Techniques Development” This article describes the significance of the Italian Association of Plastic Aesthetic Surgery's annual congress in European aesthetic plastic surgery, but reports no new research findings.
January 2023 in “Advanced Biology” This study observed that DNA methylation dynamics, including global hypermethylation and site-specific changes, influenced gene expression associated with immune activation and PI3K-Akt signaling during esophageal tissue regeneration with acellular grafts.
This review examines the physiology of skin flap necrosis and various substances studied to improve flap viability, noting that promising results are mostly from animal studies, with nitroglycerin already tested in humans.
September 2021 in “Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” This article recounts Francisco Camacho Martinez's influential career and contributions in dermatology and reports no new clinical findings.
This study explored using 3D models derived from reflectance confocal microscopy to better understand and differentiate melanoma on sun-damaged skin, suggesting enhanced diagnostic possibilities.
This Ph.D. project aims to evaluate the self-assembling potential of hair keratin extracts and study the cellular response to both crude and purified keratins, highlighting their potential applications from biomedical to water remediation.
August 2018 in “Chinese journal of plastic surgery” In this study, buccal mucosa grafts for urethroplasty in a rabbit model of congenital hypospadias showed good integration with minimal inflammatory response twelve weeks post-surgery.
This study found that hyaluronic acid increased the size of hair follicle germ-like aggregates and the number of proliferative cells but did not maintain specific markers during the process.
January 2012 in “Elsevier eBooks” Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are now well-equipped to offer comprehensive facial cosmetic care after additional training.
January 2009 in “Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery” This study evaluated surgical methods for treating cicatricial alopecia and found that factors such as size, location, and shape are crucial in deciding the approach, with good outcomes seen in 18 out of 24 patients.
August 2003 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This study identified five distinct natural scalp whorl patterns and noted that White males have more distinct whorls, whereas African Americans and women often display a diffusion pattern.
This study presents a new model for the progression of androgenetic alopecia, suggesting that the loss of attachment between the bulge's stem cells and the arrector pili muscle may contribute to irreversible hair miniaturization.
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January 2004 This review discusses epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in hair follicle development and their regulation by molecular signals, but reports no new results; the authors emphasize the need for further research to apply these findings clinically.
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August 2019 in “Cells” This article provides an overview of mesenchymal stem cells, highlighting their extraction methods, differentiation potential, and applications in regenerative medicine, but reports no new clinical findings.
158 citations
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May 2003 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study observed that hair follicle mesenchyme in mice exhibits significant plasticity during the hair cycle, with cell migration and changes in papilla size impacting hair production.
76 citations
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January 2017 in “World Journal of Stem Cells” This review discusses the potential applications of adipose-derived stromal cells for treating conditions like colitis, liver failure, and more, without presenting new clinical results.
74 citations
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June 2021 in “Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology” This study suggests that exosomal miRNAs from human amniotic fluid stem cells may inhibit myofibroblast differentiation and reduce fibrotic scarring in wound healing.
44 citations
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July 2020 in “Stem Cell Research & Therapy” This review discusses recent advancements in the study and application of epidermal stem cells for wound healing and tissue engineering, without presenting new experimental findings.