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
1. Verfasser: Ebling, F.John G.
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Sprache:eng
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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.
ISSN:0738-081X
1879-1131
DOI:10.1016/0738-081X(88)90068-5