Protective Effect of Hydroxygenkwanin against Hair Graying Induced by X-Ray Irradiation and Repetitive Plucking

• Main Authors: Nobuhiko Taguchi (Author), Ryosuke Kitai (Author), Takuya Ando (Author), Toshihiro Nishimura (Author), Hitomi Aoki (Author), Takahiro Kunisada (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hair graying in mice is caused by various injuries such as X-ray radiation and repeated plucking that ultimately damage melanocytes and their stem cells (melanocyte stem cells). In X-ray‒induced hair graying, injuries first manifest as a loss-of-niche function of hair follicular keratinocyte stem ce...