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Scientists have come up with new technological methods to
grow hair. According to the laboratory research, human skin cells are injected
onto mice. They have converted these stem cells into epithelial stem cells that
help in building different types of cells that makes up various layers of skin.
Baldness:-
· Hair follicles also contain stem cell and many
researchers have predicted that this technique may lead to success in treating
baldness.
· This method is expected to work by already existing
stem cell in the scalp.
· this technique should simply signal follicle stem
cells to give chemical signals to the surrounding follicle cells which have
shrunken during ageing process
· These signals will respond by generating healthy
hair. Recently many doctors have claimed that stem cell technique may lead
to significant and visible improvement in follicular hair growth.
Why stem cell?
· Stem cells are known as tiny progenitor cells that
are found in our body that may divide and change it into various cell types.
· All cells in our body keep on constantly multiplying
in order to form a new cell
· Stem cells in our body are naturally healing cells which
acts and repair system in our body and restore the adult tissues. They are the
source of all the cells that are dead.
Types:-
1. Embryonic stem
cells:- these cells are isolated from inner cell mass of blast cyst
2. Non-
embryonic or adult stem cells:- it is also referred as mesenchymal
stem cells i.e. found in various tissues. There are three accessible
sources of antilogous adult stem cells in humans:
1. Bone marrow- it requires extraction by drilling into the
bone.
2. Blood- that requires extraction through pheresis, whereas,
blood is taken from the donor, that is
passed through a machine which extracts the stem cells and leave back other
portion of blood to the donor.
3. Fat cells:- it requires extraction by liposuction.
Stems are also extracted from umbilical cord just after the
birth.Out of all these cell types, autologus harvesting (that are obtained from
person’s body) from the fat cells involves minimum risk. Fat cell is one of the
highest sources of non embryonic stem cells.
What does the
technique involve?
·The specialist grow skin stem cells from matured human skin
sample and conduct numerous experiments in laboratory just to ensure whether
they could grow new hair or skin cells.
· Experiment is done on animal to know whether anything
can grow and then it is compared with human sample.
Conclusion:-
·
Researchers have developed a new method of
growing human stem cell from their own skin sample.
·
This technique will be encouraging and
useful to other researchers in the field of hair transplantation.