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This review discusses the limitations of existing clinician-reported outcome measures for alopecia areata and emphasizes the need for a composite scoring system to better assess disease severity.

This study found that high-resolution laser speckle contrast imaging devices provide good reproducibility for assessing skin perfusion in mice but not for measuring haemoglobin oxygenation.

This study found that the rs1128977 SNP in the RXRG gene may be linked to altered clinical characteristics such as higher HDL-cholesterol levels and increased body mass index in individuals with dyslipidemia.

This study demonstrated that a single multimode fiber can be used for single-shot wide-field reflectance imaging, achieving high correlation with the ground truth and enabling real-time microendoscopy at up to 180 frames per second.

In this study, a strong correlation was found between the scores of two dermatology-specific quality of life instruments, DLQI and Skindex-16, suggesting they can provide complementary insights for assessing patients with skin diseases.

This study observed that MIRV improved gastrointestinal symptoms and other quality of life measures in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer compared to chemotherapy.

This review critically evaluates the evidence for SARMs' tissue selectivity and suggests their clinical benefits over traditional androgens are not yet well-supported by robust evidence, underscoring the need for further head-to-head trials.

Reflectance confocal microscopy can tell apart white dots on the scalp as either sweat gland ducts or hair follicle openings.

This case report describes a 42-year-old woman with Rhupus, a rare overlap syndrome of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, highlighting challenges in diagnosis due to non-specific clinical criteria and documenting specific symptoms such as inflammatory arthritis, malar rash, and hematological abnormalities observed during follow-up.

This study established a murine model for radiation-induced skin reactions, replicating clinical and histological features to aid future mechanistic and therapeutic research.

This study found that strontium ranelate may promote cartilage regeneration by enhancing chondrogenic differentiation and inhibiting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in rat models of cartilage defects.

This study presents the Italian adaptation of the ECR-M16 to assess attachment dimensions in cancer outpatients and notes that its factor structure is partly similar to the original.

This review examines various methods for assessing hair growth in women, highlighting the usefulness of the mFG visual scoring method for diagnosing hirsutism despite its limitations.

This study found that their newly developed ADRL framework significantly improved the accuracy of scalp tissue layer segmentation in HR-MR images compared to existing methods.

This case report describes a rare aggressive variant of squamous cell carcinoma on the scalp of a non-immunosuppressed older male, highlighting its high biological risk for metastasis and poor outcomes.

This meta-analysis reported that dietary intake of omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids does not significantly impact prostate cancer risk.

This study, involving patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, found that treatment regimens combining methotrexate and glucocorticoids, with or without initial high-dose methylprednisolone, showed higher remission rates over one year compared to methotrexate or leflunomide alone, and all regimens were generally well-tolerated.

This study found that breast cancer patients treated with the docetaxel-doxorubicin regimen experienced various adverse drug reactions, with nausea being the most common and mainly mild in severity.

In this study, reflectance confocal microscopy was shown to provide early insights into sub-clinical treatment progress in patients with androgenetic alopecia, potentially offering advantages over global photography.

QMSI effectively maps and quantifies drug distribution in skin tissues.

This report describes common skin CT features of rosacea identified using a reflective confocal microscope, facilitating more objective diagnosis but highlights the need for further clinical exploration.

This chapter reviews the development of skin-specific outcome instruments for autoimmune diseases like cutaneous lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis, highlighting a need for a broader community-involved process across other diseases but reports no new results.

In this study, researchers used Raman spectroscopy to identify melanin-specific features in mouse hair as potential biomarkers for gamma-radiation exposure, achieving a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 83%, with classification accuracy declining over time beyond 7 days post-irradiation.

This study investigated the potential of nutmeg-derived phytochemicals as anti-alopecia agents using molecular docking and simulations, finding that geranylgeraniol exhibited significant binding stability and potential efficacy against androgenetic alopecia comparable to finasteride and superior to minoxidil.

In this study, computational analysis identified EGCG as the most effective GSK3β inhibitor among tested compounds, suggesting its potential for promoting hair regrowth by interacting with signaling pathways related to hair follicle cycling, although further experimental testing is needed.

In this study, low-level laser/LED therapy significantly increased hair density in patients with androgenetic alopecia compared to placebo over 4 to 26 weeks; however, the efficacy for other alopecia types remains unclear, requiring further research.

This study found that among 100 Caucasian patients with androgenetic alopecia, dermatologists could discern hair loss at thresholds significantly lower than the previously cited 50% reduction, highlighting the importance of using objective trichometric measurements to improve detection and personalized treatment strategies.

In this study, Ipomoea batatas leaf extracts exhibited significant hair growth stimulation and strong antifungal activity against Malassezia furfur, potentially offering a promising treatment for alopecia with further research needed on their androgen receptor inhibition potential.