Are you worried about baldness or rapid hair loss? You would be happy to know that latest research shows that stem cell therapy may help in treating this menacing problem, prevalent amongst many young Indians today. In a recent development in the field of hair loss treatment, scientists have successfully used human stem cells to generate new hair. This revolutionary attempt has paved the way for a potential new cure for baldness.
The study for treating hair loss with stem cell therapy
The study for this was conducted at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) in US. Researchers are the opinion that the study is the first step in development of cell-based treatment for people suffering from hair loss and baldness.
Why this method is superior to current hair loss treatment methods?
One of the senior researchers involved in the study says that in the method human pluripotent stem cells is used to create new cells which are capable of initiating human hair growth. He feels that this new process is a marked improvement over the current hair loss treatment methods. These include hair transplantation which relies on transplanting hair follicles from one part of the head to another part. In this method you get an unlimited source of cells from the patient for transplantation. Unlike hair transplantation it is not limited by the availability of existing hair follicles. Thus it is a far effective way to treat hair loss.
The research team developed a technique that coaxed human pluripotent stem cells to become dermal papilla cells. Researchers feel that human dermal papilla cells on their own are not suitable for hair transplants. The reason for this is that they cannot be obtained in necessary amounts. Besides they rapidly lose their ability to induce hair-follicle formation in culture. The dermal cells quickly lose their hair-inducing properties outside the body in adults.
As of now, researchers have developed a technique to develop to drive human pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into dermal papilla cells. It has been confirmed that they induce hair growth in mice at present. The next step would involve transplanting human dermal papilla cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells back into human subjects. Researchers are very confident that this would be equally effective in human beings too.
As the problem of hair loss and baldness is growing amongst young men and women in India and worldwide, a lot of research is also being undertaken. As a result new and even better methods for treating hair loss keep on evolving. Thus if you have fallen prey to this problem of rapid hair loss there is much hope that with the latest developments hair loss treatments would only improve and become more effective with minimum side effects.
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