The hair cycle and its regulation
The most important feature of hair growth is the cyclic activity of hair follicles in which an active phase, anagen, is succeeded by a resting phase, telogen, during which the fully formed hair remains anchored in the follicle. Between anagen and telogen there is a short transitional phase called ca...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinics in dermatology 1988-10, Vol.6 (4), p.67-73 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The most important feature of hair growth is the cyclic activity of hair follicles in which an active phase, anagen, is succeeded by a resting phase, telogen, during which the fully formed hair remains anchored in the follicle. Between anagen and telogen there is a short transitional phase called catagen. In 1924, Trotter1 recognized that such a cycle existed in man. Two years later, Dry2 described the cycle in detail for the mouse and first used the terminology, which currently is universally accepted. A detailed account of the hair cycle in the human scalp, however, awaited the work of Kligman in 1959.3 Today, his pictures still provide classic illustrations of the sequence of events. |
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ISSN: | 0738-081X 1879-1131 |
DOI: | 10.1016/0738-081X(88)90068-5 |