January 2025 in “International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology” This study validated an HPLC analytical method for evaluating fenasteride in commercial products, finding it to be sensitive, selective, and within acceptance criteria for specificity, precision, and stability, making it suitable for quality control testing.
November 2024 in “Advances in Pharmacology and Pharmacy” This study validated a UV-spectrophotometric method for accurately detecting Minoxidil and Tofacitinib citrate concentrations in bulk and gel formulations for alopecia areata, showing high recovery rates and indicating the method's suitability for routine analysis.
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January 2009 This study found that the hair cortisol measurement procedure was reliable, unaffected by the choice of tubes, and that hair cortisol concentration correlated moderately with the number of intense aggressions experienced.
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March 2007 in “BioTechniques” This study observed that PCR-based genotyping for cre-loxP mice can lead to errors due to cre-mediated recombination in non-target tissues like tails, affecting the detection of lox alleles.
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July 2016 in “Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” This study found that the proposed LC-MS/MS method accurately quantified the drug content in split tablets of finasteride and terbinafine, revealing significant variability and suggesting that non-scored tablets should not be split.
August 2026 in “Ebers Papyrus” This study concluded that allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR) is more reliable than tetra-primer ARMS-PCR for genotyping the SNP rs1998076 due to better stability and interpretability.
January 2004 in “Europe PMC (PubMed Central)” Finasteride sustained-release tablets are stable.
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July 2018 in “Skin research and technology” This study found significant differences in the spread of sebum on hair among Chinese men with greasy and non-greasy scalps, despite similar sebum amounts at the root region post-shampoo.
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July 2017 in “PLoS ONE” This study suggests that passage number significantly affects in silico scratch assay results, highlighting the importance of reporting passage number for reproducibility in cell culture experiments.
January 2022 in “Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Dermatology” This study found that the Turkish version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness-2 Scale is valid and reliable for use with Turkish dermatology patients.
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January 1995 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” A trial found that using finasteride, a hair growth drug, can be effectively measured by comparing before and after photos.
April 2026 in “Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)” This paper provides an auditable companion package for their exploratory re-analysis of miRNA dysregulation and target enrichment in female pattern hair loss cases, focusing on candidate-level results from a public dataset comparison between affected individuals and healthy controls.
January 2014 in “NDSU Repository (North Dakota State University)” This study found that the Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale has acceptable internal consistency and divergent validity for assessing Trichotillomania severity, but demonstrated inadequate test-retest reliability and mixed convergent validity.
October 2025 in “Frontiers in Toxicology” This study found that a human relevant potency threshold for estrogen receptor alpha agonism may serve as a health-protective screening tool, and highlights inference performance as essential for scientific confidence frameworks.
November 2019 in “Hair transplant forum international” This study found that the SketchAndCalc tablet application offers an easy, rapid, and accurate method for measuring recipient areas in hair restoration, particularly excelling in accuracy for long and narrow shapes.
July 2025 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This article corrects a duplication error in a previous publication and reports no new research findings.
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January 2011 in “Der Pharmacia Lettre” This study validated a precise and sensitive reverse phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for determining Finasteride and Tamsulosin concentrations in bulk and tablet forms, with satisfactory accuracy and reproducibility.
September 2023 in “Scientific reports” This study observed that testosterone concentrations in hair segments show some stability over time, but are influenced by factors like sebum integration, hair washing frequency, and individual hair growth rates.
January 2012 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology”
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June 2024 in “Cureus” In a study involving adults with mild to moderate dandruff, researchers observed that post-hair wash interventions significantly reduced dandruff as measured by three assessment methods, showing substantial reliability and correlation, which supports their use in clinical settings for evaluating scalp dandruff treatments.
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January 2012 in “American Journal of Analytical Chemistry” This study developed and validated a gradient reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method to effectively measure Finasteride and its related impurities in pharmaceutical bulk drugs, demonstrating high linearity and precision.
This study measured the force required to pluck anagen and telogen hair from volunteers, suggesting that trichotillometry could assess hair strength in alopecia patients and evaluate treatment efficacy.
July 2014 in “European Journal of Cancer” p14ARF and p16Ink4a cause hair follicle stem cell aging and dysfunction.
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August 2018 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that Muse cells retained their pluripotency and ability to differentiate into various cell types even after being cryopreserved multiple times.
May 2025 in “Archives of Dermatological Research” Patient-reported hair improvements align with actual hair density changes, not hair width.
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June 2012 in “Wound Repair and Regeneration” This study found that basal keratinocytes in engineered skin substitutes showed a proliferative phenotype and potential for long-term replication, which may enhance wound healing stability.
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November 2020 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings” The Brigham Eyebrow Tool for Alopecia is a simple and reliable way to measure eyebrow hair loss.
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July 2013 in “The Journal of Sexual Medicine” This review discusses the potential role of androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism testing in hypogonadism management for both sexes, but its clinical utility remains unclear and requires further investigation.
February 2021 in “European Chemical Bulletin” This study developed and validated a reverse phase liquid chromatography method to accurately and reliably measure Minoxidil and Finasteride in bulk and marketed formulations.
June 2023 in “Aesthetic Plastic Surgery” This study introduces the PRECISE scale, a quantitative tool to classify androgenetic alopecia, aiming to improve planning and outcomes for hair transplantation surgeries by evaluating the whole hairless and thinning areas.