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Can a Drug Cure Baldness? New Study Shows Potential24/5/2018
  Approximately 88 million men and women experience some degree of hair loss during their lives.To get more Health News, you can visit shine news official website. Those eager to reverse a receding hairline can choose from a few solutions. Hair transplants are a costly but permanent option. Topical solutions that promote hair growth, but at inconsistent rates, are another option.
To date, scientists haven’t developed a surefire method to stop hair loss, which is scientifically known as androgenetic alopecia. That term alone provides clues to its illusive cure. Hair loss is the result of both hormonal and hereditary factors. The truth is, hair loss is still a bit of mystery, says Dr. Edidiong Kaminska. She practices dermatology in Chicago and is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Dermatology. “There are so many molecular pathways — it’s multifactorial, it’s hereditary. There are a host of factors,” she told Healthline.
 “That’s why treating hair loss has been complicated and challenging.”A study released this month may bring scientists one step closer to solving the hair loss puzzle. It involves a drug that’s currently used to treat osteoporosis. One of the side effects of the drug is that it reduces the activity of a protein called SFRP1. This is key because that protein also stops follicles from growing hair. The researchers from the University of Manchester’s Centre for Dermatology Research uncovered this finding through lab tests. They used samples containing scalp hair follicles from more than 40 male hair-transplant patients. The hair follicles were placed in a medium and treated with the drug. Researchers said that those hair follicles were able to grow again because it suppressed the actions of SFRP1.Kaminska said it’s exciting to see that the researchers were able to zero in on the protein that stops hair from growing at the follicle.
“This is novel because it blocked that protein, SFRP,” she said. “It’s amazing that they were able to find the specific protein.” But Kaminska stopped short of calling the findings a cure for baldness. For starters, she said it’s just the first study. Further, it was only conducted in the lab, not on people. There simply isn’t enough thorough research to draw serious conclusions yet about its long-term implications for hair loss.Copyright Maskot Approximately 88 million men and women experience some degree of hair loss during their lives. Those eager to reverse a receding hairline can choose from a few solutions. Hair transplants are a costly but permanent option. Topical solutions that promote hair growth, but at inconsistent rates, are another option. 
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