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Article: Researchers Identify Key Factor In Hair Loss Disorder.(alopecia areata)
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- January 16, 2002
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2002 JAN 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, have identified a key factor in the cause of alopecia areata, a hair loss disorder that often strikes children.
Their study suggests that future treatments could involve desensitizing the body's immune system to the substances that provoke the attack.
The researchers previously showed that in alopecia areata, white blood cells - part of the immune system - attack hair follicles, pockets of skin cells in which hair is rooted. But what induces the attack wasn't clear. In the new findings, researchers show that proteins produced by ...