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    Glossary Vellus Follicles

    small hair follicles producing fine, short, lightly pigmented hairs

    Vellus follicles are small hair follicles that produce fine, short, and lightly pigmented hairs known as vellus hairs. These hairs cover most of the human body and are often referred to as "peach fuzz." Unlike terminal hairs, which are thicker and darker, vellus hairs play a minimal role in thermoregulation and are more prominent in children and women.

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    1. Reorganization of hair follicles in human skin organ culture induced by cultured human follicle-derived cells Experimental Dermatology · 2005 · 56 citations
    2. Hair cycle-specific expression of versican in human hair follicles Journal of Dermatological Science · 2005 · 88 citations
    3. Frontal fibrosing alopecia in postmenopausal women Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology · 2004 · 179 citations
    4. Follicular miniaturization in female pattern hair loss: clinicopathological correlations British Journal of Dermatology · 2006 · 100 citations
    5. Hair removal using the long-pulsed ruby laser Dermatologic Clinics · 1999 · 4 citations
    6. Androgenetic Alopecia: How It Happens Hair transplant forum international · 2015
    7. Reflectance Confocal Microscopy of the Yellow Dot Pattern in Alopecia Areata Archives of Dermatology · 2011 · 39 citations
    8. Peculiar hypertrichosis in a patient affected by frontal fibrosing alopecia with pseudo "fringe sign" Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia · 2020 · 2 citations
    9. 9 Pilosebaceous physiology in relation to hirsutism and acne Clinics in endocrinology and metabolism · 1986 · 75 citations
    10. Sex differences in clinical trials of ALRV5XR treatment of androgenetic alopecia and telogen effluvium Frontiers in Medicine · 2022 · 1 citations
    11. Permanent alopecia in patients with breast cancer after taxane chemotherapy and adjuvant hormonal therapy: Clinicopathologic findings in a cohort of 10 patients Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology · 2017 · 31 citations
    12. Telogen Effluvium Dermatology · 2009 · 32 citations
    13. Epithelial skirt and bulge of human facial vellus hair follicles and and associated Merkel cell-nerve complex Archives of Dermatological Research · 1993 · 48 citations
    14. Hormonal Effects on Hair Follicles International journal of molecular sciences · 2020 · 102 citations
    15. Quantitative Models for the Study of Hair Growth <i>in Vivo</i><sup>a</sup> Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1991 · 34 citations
    16. Spatiotemporal secondary hair follicle development in the Lanyu pig (Sus scrofa taivanus): a novel pelage hair follicle model bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
    17. Non-Invasive Techniques for Evaluating Alopecia Areata Mædica · 2023
    18. Human hair follicle: reservoir function and selective targeting British Journal of Dermatology · 2011 · 97 citations
    19. Eruptive Vellus Hair Cyst International Journal of Dermatology · 1986 · 8 citations
    20. Trichoscopic findings in folliculotropic mycosis fungoides: case report Portuguese Journal of Dermatology and Venereology · 2023 · 1 citations
    21. Androgen Regulation of the Human Hair Follicle: The Type I Hair Keratin hHa7 Is a Direct Target Gene in Trichocytes Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 2004 · 49 citations
    22. Tricoscopia en la alopecia areata Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas · 2022 · 21 citations
    23. [Translated article] Trichoscopy in Alopecia Areata Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas · 2022 · 7 citations
    24. Evaluation of difficult alopecia areata cases requiring histopathological confirmation TURKDERM · 2025
    25. Eruptive Vellus Hair Cysts: Report of a New Case with Immunohistochemical Study and Literature Review Dermatology · 2012 · 13 citations
    26. A Pedunculated Follicular Hamartoma: A Case Showing a Central Trichofolliculoma‐like Tumor with Multiple Trichogenic Tumors The Journal of Dermatology · 1991 · 4 citations
    27. Effects of Hormones and Endocrine Disorders on Hair Growth Cureus · 2022
    28. Permanent Alopecia After Systemic Chemotherapy: A Clinicopathological Study of 10 Cases The American Journal of Dermatopathology · 2011 · 57 citations
    29. Referee report. For: Pathogenesis of Androgenetic alopecia [v1; indexed, http://f1000r.es/5ar] Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2015
    30. Hair loss in adult females: A clinical and trichoscopic study International journal of dermatology, venereology and leprosy sciences · 2021