www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1907 follicular canal, dehydrate, and form the growing shaft. The visible hair shaft is composed of an outer cuticle, the cortex and, sometimes, a core of compact, keratinized cells, all of which are made of protein. Hairs that are in the anagen phase during removal are more sensitive to the various treatment modalities than hairs in the telogen phase....

BACKGROUND Pilonidal disease is foreign body reactions accompanied by chronic inflammation that most commonly arises in the hair follicles of the natal cleft or other hair-bearing areas. Today, surgical intervention remains the treatment of choice. But surgical treatment is an invasive method with a high failure rate and recurrence. OBJECTIVES The authors' objective was to assess the efficacy...

The hair follicle dermal papilla (DP) contains a unique prominin-1/CD133-positive (CD133+) cell subpopulation, which has been shown to possess hair follicle-inducing capability. By assaying for endogenous CD133 expression and performing lineage tracing using CD133-CreERT2; ZsGreen1 reporter mice, we find that CD133 is expressed in a subpopulation of DP cells during the growth phase of the murin...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We have recently shown that repeated low fluence photoepilation (LFP) with intense pulsed light (IPL) leads to effective hair removal, which is fully reversible. Contrary to permanent hair removal treatments, LFP does not induce severe damage to the hair follicle. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the impact of LFP on the structure and the physiology o...

OBJECTIVE Multiple lasers and light sources are currently available for hair removal and many studies comparing efficacy and safety exist. SHR mode IPL is a technique that gives the total energy in divided doses with fewer side effects. We compared a SHR mode IPL system with alexandrite and Nd: YAG lasers for leg hair reduction. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-five female participants with skin t...

During nervous system development, critical periods are usually defined as early periods during which manipulations dramatically change neuronal structure or function, whereas the same manipulations in mature animals have little or no effect on the same property. Neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus (CN) are dependent on excitatory afferent input for survival during a critical period of deve...

Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery ‐ Jul‐Sep 2016, Volume 9, Issue 3 209 8. Fong ST, Lam YL, So YC. A modified periungual approach for treatment of subungual glomus tumour. Hand Surg 2007;12:217‐21. 9. Wang PJ, Zhang Y, Zhao JJ. Treatment of subungual glomus tumors using the nail bed margin approach. Dermatol Surg 2013;39:1689‐94. 10. Van Geertruyden J, Lorea P, Goldschmidt D, de Fontai...

BMPV black holes in flat transverse space and in Taub-NUT space have identical near horizon geometries but different microscopic degeneracies. It has been proposed that this difference can be accounted for by different contribution to the degeneracies of these black holes from hair modes, – degrees of freedom living outside the horizon. In this paper we explicitly construct the hair modes of th...