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Article: FEMALE HORMONE FOUND TO PLAY A ROLE IN MICE, SKIN SWABBED WITH ESTROGEN PREVENTS HAIR GROWTH.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1996
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Byline: ESTES THOMPSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
RALEIGH -- Men who blame women when they start losing their hair may be closer to the truth than they think.
Researchers conducting mouse studies say baldness may be linked to the presence of a female hormone rather than the lack of a male hormone.
The clue to baldness did not begin as a search for more hair.
Dr. Robert Smart and graduate assistant Hye-Sun Oh were studying the effect of a pesticide on skin cancer. The North Carolina State University researchers found that the shaved skin of mice did not grow hair if it had been swabbed with estrogen.
``Estrogen was playing some fundamental role in skin biology,'' ...