Preventable effect of L-threonate, an ascorbate metabolite, on androgen-driven balding via repression of dihydrotestosterone-induced dickkopf-1 expression in human hair dermal papilla cells

BMB Reports

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 688-692

  Kwack, Mi Hee ^a   Ahn, Ji Sup ^b   Kim, Moon Kyu ^a   Kim, Jung Chul ^a   Sung, Young Kwan ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dr Ahn Medical Hair Clinic   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Balding; Dermal papilla cells; Dickkopf 1; Dihydrotestosterone; L threonate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DKK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THREONIC ACID;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DERMIS; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ALOPECIA; ANDROGENS; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOPREVENTION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DERMIS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KERATINOCYTES; MALE;

EID: 78649487245     PISSN: 19766696     EISSN: 1976670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3858/BMBRep.2010.43.10.688     Document Type: Article

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