OC000459? (Yes that's its name)

[gutted]

Most of those are not even related to MALE PATTERN BALDNESS. And you sound so sure that you know the cure a few posts back.....

the basic physiology and mechanism behind the hair follcile remains the same.
It just so happens that the causes behind each "disease" is different (or are they?)

i was involved in the sulfasalazine topic on HLH, my mate is on sulfasalazine for his rheaumotoid arthiritis and i can confirm his hair grows below his original hairline...whethere this is due to the drug or something else is anyones guess though.

there were some people trying sulfasalazine on the forums, but im not really sure what happened...perhaps brushed it off as bull**** and other people followed based on a single user experience. That being said this is most likley going to be brushed off too, we need carefully planned studies...

[WillhasWill]

the basic physiology and mechanism behind the hair follcile remains the same.
It just so happens that the causes behind each "disease" is different (or are they?)

i was involved in the sulfasalazine topic on HLH, my mate is on sulfasalazine for his rheaumotoid arthiritis and i can confirm his hair grows below his original hairline...whethere this is due to the drug or something else is anyones guess though.

there were some people trying sulfasalazine on the forums, but im not really sure what happened...perhaps brushed it off as bull**** and other people followed based on a single user experience. That being said this is most likley going to be brushed off too, we need carefully planned studies...

Are you on sulfasalazine seeing as you have a friend whose hair grows below his original hairline?

[gutted]

Are you on sulfasalazine seeing as you have a friend whose hair grows below his original hairline?

no...im not on it.
it has some pretty bad side effects.

[Gjm127]

I am glad that this treatment is under works... I would to order some of this but I'm far too scared of trying out some pill or cream that doesn't have FDA approval...

Isn't any pharmaceutical company working on this except for this forum guy that asked some lab to make this medicine?

I mean, this could be THE cure we've been all waiting for so long...

[Tacola]

And does anyone know when this drug will come out? This that can reduce the bad levels of protein? Does Cotseralis work on this? Or is it Latisse?

[2020]

Those poor mice... this picture says everything:

[NeedHairASAP]

Those poor mice... this picture says everything:

dont get it...

[clandestine]

dont get it...

Me neither. Was waiting for someone else to say it.

[2020]

Mice were shaven.

Scientists applied PGD2 daily or whatever on Mouse A
Scientists also applied a placebo on Mouse B

Mouse A did not grow his hair back while hair grew back completely for Mouse B.

Conclusion: your hair WILL NOT GROW BACK until you get rid of PGD2

[clandestine]

Mice were shaven.

Scientists applied PGD2 daily or whatever on Mouse A
Scientists also applied a placebo on Mouse B

Mouse A did not grow his hair back while hair grew back completely for Mouse B.

Conclusion: your hair WILL NOT GROW BACK until you get rid of PGD2

Cool, curious where you got the picture?

And when can we expect something like OC000459 might come to market?

[2020]

Cool, curious where you got the picture?

http://www.google.com/patents/US20110021599

And when can we expect something like OC000459 might come to market?

..... OC000459 is an ASTHMA DRUG. Its makers probably have no plans of "remaking" it to a hair loss drug. For all we know, it may not even be effective in its pill form....
CRTH2 antagonists have been around for a while so I'm sure they would have noticed its "hair growing" effects. Somehow the pills are just too weak or something, so we'll probably be stuck making our own topicals as no large pharma company is that interested in making another "Rogaine".....

[WillhasWill]

http://www.google.com/patents/US20110021599
no large pharma company is that interested in making another "Rogaine".....

Why would they not be interested in bringing to market a drug that has less side affects and is more effective than Rogaine? More people would take it.

There is a hell of a lot of motivation for new hair loss treatments to come to market.

[sausage]

If this grew back a tonne of hair I am sure someone would make it work!

[Gjm127]

OC000459 is an ASTHMA DRUG. Its makers probably have no plans of "remaking" it to a hair loss drug. For all we know, it may not even be effective in its pill form....

CRTH2 antagonists have been around for a while so I'm sure they would have noticed its "hair growing" effects. Somehow the pills are just too weak or something, so we'll probably be stuck making our own topicals as no large pharma company is that interested in making another "Rogaine".....

So you're saying, if this thing actually works... there's no future in this treatment?
How can we be happy about this?

[NotBelievingIt]

the only thing that stands out in that terrible black and white scan is that the mouse on the right made a poopy.