Scientists found the cause of gray hair and hair loss

Changes in your hair including hair color or hair loss are an aging associated with a particular type of cell.

Recently, a group of international researchers accidentally found a type of skin cell involved in controlling silver hair, hair loss, and baldness in an ongoing study on cancer patients with Related neurons. Researchers believe that their findings could open a new era for treatment, prevent baldness, hair loss, hair loss .

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The lead author of the study, Dr. Lu Le, is an assistant professor of dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, saying: ' Although this project started from watching some tumors have formed like that. but we happened to find out why the hair is also silver, and is related to some other diseases caused by hair cells ".

In this press release, he explained: With this knowledge, we hope in the future to create a new compound or a safe gene to correct hair color problems, hair loss, very much related to aesthetic factors.

Specifically, researchers have officially discovered a new protein called KROX20 that can activate skin cells to grow into hair patches. Not only that, these cells have a great influence on the development of human nerves.

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The activated skin cells can also produce another protein that is involved in hair color. And this protein is called SCF. Experiments in mice showed that when they removed this protein from the mouse body, their hair color immediately changed from gray to white. And when deleting the KROX20 protein, the mice became more bald.

In fact, animal studies are not always the same as in humans, but this result gives us a way, a new path that promises to be successful.

Currently, researchers want to control the two proteins SCF and KROX20 can stop functioning at a specific stage in humans. Because gray hair and hair loss are also among the first signs of aging. In addition, this study provides new important information regarding aging in humans. The authors noted.

This research has just been published in Genes & Development Magazine.