Follicular Cell Implantation: An Emerging Cell Therapy for Hair Loss

Jeffrey Teumer; Jerry Cooley

doi:10.1055/s-2005-871735

Seminars in Plastic Surgery, Table of Contents

Semin Plast Surg 2005; 19(2): 193-200
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-871735

Follicular Cell Implantation: An Emerging Cell Therapy for Hair Loss

Jeffrey Teumer¹ , Jerry Cooley²

¹Intercytex Ltd., Woburn, Massachusetts
²Carolina Dermatology Hair Center, Charlotte, NC

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The cells of the adult follicular dermal papilla retain a powerful hair-inductive capacity acquired during embryonic hair morphogenesis. This inductive capacity is the basis of a cell therapy called follicular cell implantation in which dermal papilla cells from a small number of donor follicles are expanded in culture and then implanted into a bald region of scalp. In this manner, many new follicles can be formed from the cells of a few.

KEYWORDS

Hair - regenerative medicine - hair cloning - dermal papilla - cell therapy

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