References: Hair growth and hair loss
Arch Dermatol Res. 2000 Feb-Mar;292(2-3):60-7.
Reduction of regrowing hair shaft size and pigmentation after ruby and diode laser treatment.
Lin TY, Dierickx CC, Campos VB, Farinelli WA, Rosenthal J, Anderson RR.
Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
Laser pulses which selectively damage pigmented hair follicles are a useful treatment for hypertrichosis. Clinically, regrowing hairs are often thinner and lighter after treatment. In this study, hair shaft diameter and optical transmission (700 nm) were measured before and after ruby (694 nm) and diode (800 nm) laser irradiation. Hair was collected from 47 and 41 subjects treated with ruby (0.3 ms and 3 ms) and diode (10-20 ms) lasers, respectively. "Responders" were defined as subjects with significant long-term hair loss as determined by hair counts at 9 and/or 12 months after treatment. In ruby laser responders (34/47), regrowing hairs were significantly both thinner (decreased diameter) and lighter (increased transmission). In "nonresponders" (13/47), regrowing hairs were lighter, but not thinner. The regrowing hair shaft absorption coefficient (as calculated assuming Beer's law) was significantly decreased by 0.3 ms ruby laser treatment, but was not changed by 3 ms ruby laser or diode laser treatment. After diode laser treatment, 38 of the 41 subjects were responders and regrowing hairs were both thinner and lighter. These results show that laser treatments can affect structural recovery (size of hair), follicular pigmentation (hair absorption coefficient), or both. Regrowth of thinner hair (decreased shaft diameter) occurs in conjunction with actual loss of hair. After long pulses (3 ms ruby; diode), regrowing hair was thinner and also lighter to an extent related to the decrease in hair diameter. In contrast, short ruby laser pulses (0.3 ms) appeared to be capable of inhibiting follicular pigmentation per se, in addition to affecting the hair diameter. This may account for the complete regrowth of lighter hair in "nonresponders" treated with 0.3 ms pulses. Laser-induced reduction in hair diameter and/or pigmentation are both long-term responses which confer cosmetic benefits in addition to actual hair loss.
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Arch Dermatol Res. 1986;278(3):214-8.
Topical immunotherapy changes the composition of the peribulbar infiltrate in alopecia areata.
Happle R, Klein HM, Macher E.
It has previously been shown that, in patients with untreated progressive alopecia areata (AA), the peribulbar T4/T8 ratio is about 4:1. In the present study, the immunohistochemical findings obtained in untreated AA patients were compared to those obtained in patients who had received topical immunotherapy with diphencyprone. The untreated group consisted of 5 patients with progressive AA and 5 patients with inactive AA. The treated group consisted of 5 patients with a good response to diphencyprone and 5 patients with little or no hair regrowth after treatment. In untreated patients with progressive AA, the mean peribulbar T4/T8 ratio was 4:1, whereas in untreated patients with stable AA, the ratio was 2:1. In the treated patients with a good response to diphencyprone, the mean T4/T8 ratio was 1:1, while in the patients with poor or no response to treatment, the ratio was 0.7. In conclusion, topical immunotherapy considerably alters the peribulbar T4/T8 ratio in AA. The results are consistent with, but do not prove, the concept of topical immunomodulation.
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Dermatologica. 1987;175 Suppl 2:29-35.
Immunohistochemical characterization of the cellular infiltrate in severe alopecia areata before and after minoxidil treatment.
Fiedler VC, Buys CM.
Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.
The mechanism of minoxidil-induced hair regrowth in alopecia areata (AA) is unknown. In vitro studies suggest that pharmacologic tissue levels of minoxidil may have both epithelial and T cell effects. Response in 36 of 47 patients with severe AA to topical minoxidil 5% b.i.d. was characterized by a return toward normal of hair follicle diameter, depth and structure, and an apparent shift in T cell populations from the skin into the peripheral blood. Nonresponders showed none of these changes. Biopsies from 34 patients subsequently treated with oral minoxidil 5 mg q. 12 h showed no further changes in perifollicular total T, helper-inducer T or suppressor-cytotoxic T cell counts; they did, however, demonstrate significant decreases in perifollicular Langerhans cell and activated T cell counts, and nearly significant decreases in perifollicular monocyte counts. It is possible that minoxidil may be altering a presumed follicular chemoattractive stimulus to a variety of cell types. Decreases in activated T cell counts suggest the possibility of direct immunomodulatory effects of minoxidil on T cells which might contribute to a hair regrowth response in AA.
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