Quorum Sensing : pluck hair to regenerate growth

[noisette]

Hahaha you are great Terry, really funny

[Terry Mancini]

hahaha cheers noisette. The sad truth though is that this balding lark has totally done my head in, and I mean more than just the disused bird nest hairstyle.

Even if the plucking technique was to work, it would be no good to me. My bald patch is so large that for a plucked hair to signal another, it would have t overcome the speed of light barrier

I have a feeling I may either be waiting a long time, or need to stick my head into a worm hole

[Seuxin]

This process is similar to that used in humans by Liu :-)

Ha Ha Ha, Dr Liu.......

[noisette]

hahaha cheers noisette. The sad truth though is that this balding lark has totally done my head in, and I mean more than just the disused bird nest hairstyle.

Even if the plucking technique was to work, it would be no good to me. My bald patch is so large that for a plucked hair to signal another, it would have t overcome the speed of light barrier

I have a feeling I may either be waiting a long time, or need to stick my head into a worm hole

Hahaha I hope not, but perhaps you will be interesting in Doctor Wesley's technique called Piloscopy. you can read a thread here about this...

[burtandernie]

I dont know its kind of sad we are talking about plucking hairs in 2015 in hopes of regrowing some barely cosmetic significant amount of hair if it even does anything. 25 years since propecia and we are plucking hairs as a cutting edge treatment? The whole idea of this sounds kind of silly to me.
Mice are close to humans biologically? I thought they used mice because there was nothing cheaper or better that was as common. I would think stump tailed macaques would be much more near a human biologically and genetically but probably more expensive and harder to get a hold of.

[jay woo]

The scientist involved in the research did not imply it would work in humans. I caught the end of an interview with him on a local radio station. He seemed to only be willing to say it was an experiment on mice. When asked if how his hair was, he said he was losing hair. If the method worked that well on humans then he would have been using it on himself.

[BluEMoon2]

Anyone remember the hair plucking guy on the newsgroup alt.baldspot ? hehe

EDIT: OMG.. I just checked alt.baldspot and they are still going on there.. Its 10-12 years since I last read that newgroup.

[NeedHairASAP]

This is a very interesting study because it looks at quorum sensing and hair stem cells. Yes, it was in mice and would be a while before human application. But it was published by USC in a top notch journal which says a lot about how important a contribution it is to hair regeneration.

It's plucking hairs. How long does it take to do this in human lol. I'll walk over to my bathroom right now and do it.

[FearTheLoss]

This is a very interesting study because it looks at quorum sensing and hair stem cells. Yes, it was in mice and would be a while before human application. But it was published by USC in a top notch journal which says a lot about how important a contribution it is to hair regeneration.

Dr. Rashid, what are your thoughts on the state of donor regeneration and where the field is at with it? What are your thoughts on pilofocus' potential to execute the study Dr. Wesley posted? Have you done any work in your office regarding regeneration or expanding the donor region?

[FearTheLoss]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19438685

This is the study I'm referring to.

Thanks Doc