Treatment of alopecia areata and hair loss

Treatment of alopecia areata and hair loss

A new discovery may help treat alopecia and baldness. A team of scientists has made a pivotal discovery about the behavior of the main cells in the follicles, identifying a previously unknown role for a molecule competent to issue signals to stem cells important for hair growth.

It also focused on research and studies aimed at demonstrating how they could be produced from stem cells or 3D versions, for example, many of which raised some promising possibilities.

SCUBE3 signaling molecule

As part of the efforts of a UCLA team of scientists to seek new treatments for alopecia areata or baldness, models were designed from lab mice with highly active skin papillary cells, which led to excess hair growth.

By observing how papillary cells activate signal molecules, scientists were able to come up with a new hair growth treatment, discovering a signaling molecule called SCUBE3, which was then validated by experiments on human follicles.

New results

In the scientists' view, the new results provide promising evidence prior to clinical testing that the SCUBE3 signal molecule or similar molecules can be used as a treatment for hair loss, and submitted an interim patent application for this purpose.