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Article: STUDY BLAMES BALDNESS ON FEMALE HORMONES.(LIVING)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1996
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Byline: The Raleigh News & Observer
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Raging female hormones take the blame for a lot of problems among women. Now, they're being blamed for a major problem among men.
The female hormone estrogen appears to play a key role in hair loss, according to a study published today by scientists at North Carolina State University.
Make that fur loss. The studies were conducted in mice and have yet to be duplicated in humans.
''Our findings indicate that an estrogen receptor pathway in specific cells of the mice's hair follicles somehow acts as a switch, essentially turning on and off hair growth,'' toxicologist Dr. Robert Smart ...
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