{"id":1041789,"date":"2011-02-22T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/another-possible-approach-to-reversing-baldness\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:51:43","slug":"another-possible-approach-to-reversing-baldness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/another-possible-approach-to-reversing-baldness.php","title":{"rendered":"Another Possible Approach to Reversing Baldness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/02\/110216185406.htm\">ScienceDaily<\/a>: &#8220;It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. &#8230; Now, a team [that] was investigating how stress affects gastrointestinal function may have found a chemical compound that induces hair growth by blocking a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stress_hormone\">stress-related hormone<\/a> associated with hair loss &#8211; entirely by accident. &#8230; Our findings show that a short-duration treatment with this compound causes an astounding long-term hair regrowth in chronically stressed mutant mice. This could open new venues to treat hair loss in humans through the modulation of the stress hormone <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Receptor_(biochemistry)\">receptors<\/a>, particularly hair loss related to chronic stress and aging. &#8230; the researchers had been using mice that were genetically altered to overproduce a stress hormone called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corticotropin-releasing_hormone\">corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF<\/a>. As these mice age, they lose hair and eventually become bald on their backs, making them visually distinct from their unaltered counterparts. The [researchers] had developed the chemical compound, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peptide\">peptide<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astressin-B\">astressin-B<\/a>, and described its ability to block the action of CRF. &#8230; researchers injected the astressin-B into the bald mice to observe how its CRF-blocking ability affected gastrointestinal tract function. &#8230;. About three months later, the investigators returned to these mice to conduct further gastrointestinal studies and found they couldn&#8217;t distinguish them from their unaltered brethren. They had regrown hair on their previously bald backs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/02\/110216185406.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/02\/110216185406.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ScienceDaily: &#8220;It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. &#8230; Now, a team [that] was investigating how stress affects gastrointestinal function may have found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/another-possible-approach-to-reversing-baldness.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}