Jung-Il Kang, Sang-Cheol Kim, Sang-Chul Han, Hye-Jin Hong, You-Jin Jeon, Bora Kim, Young-Sang Koh, Eun-Sook Yoo, Hee-Kyoung Kang
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Grateloupia elliptica, a seaweed native to Jeju Island, Korea, on the prevention of hair loss. When immortalized rat vibrissa dermal papilla cells were treated with extract of G. elliptica, the proliferation of dermal papilla cells significantly increased. In addition, the G. elliptica extract significantly inhibited the activity of 5α-reductase, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a main cause of androgenetic alopecia. On the other hand, the G...
January 2012: Biomolecules & Therapeutics