Article: Researchers link baldness to female hormone Study on mice indicates estrogen plays some basic role, scientist says

Researchers using mice to examine a pesticide's effects on skin cancer also developed data they say indicated baldness might be linked to the presence of a female hormone, not the absence of a male one.

Physician Robert Smart and graduate assistant Hye-Sun Oh were studying the pesticide's impact when they found that the shaved skin of mice grew hair when treated with an estrogen blocker.

"Estrogen was playing some fundamental role in skin biology," Smart said. The discovery by the North Carolina State University researchers was published in today's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery is being tested for possible application in human beings, but any ...

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