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The 4th Intercontinental Meeting of Hair Research
Hirsutism and the Variable Response of the Pilosebaceous Unit to Androgen
Robert L. Rosenfield
Others  :  http://www.nature.com/jidsp/journal/v10/n3/pdf/5640205a.pdf
PID  :  10935
来源: CEUR
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【 摘 要 】

The pilosebaceous unit (PSU) response to androgen is variable. Certain population of PSU respond to androgen in a distinctive pattern that results in sexual hair development in some, sebaceous gland development in others. Furthermore, androgen excess is variably manifest in women as hirsutism, acne vulgaris, seborrhea, or pattern alopecia. Although sebaceous cells act as intracrine cells, activating pro-hormones to potent androgens that act within the sebocyte, hair follicle metabolism predominantly inactivates testosterone. Androgen action in the sexual hair follicle appears to be mediated by the dermal papilla and possibly, by inducing expression of a specific keratin, hHa7, in the hair medulla. The data do not clearly support a relationship between idiopathic hirsutism, the hirsutism that occurs in the absence of androgen excess, and variations in androgen mechanism of action. Androgens are prominent among the hormones that modulate the biological mechanism regulating the hair cycle. However, the basis for the variable pattern of PSU response to androgen is unclear, as is the basis for the variable development of hirsutism in response to androgen excess and the incomplete reversal of hirsutism by anti-androgen treatment. Improved treatment of hirsutism awaits improved understanding of the nature of the interaction between androgens and other determinants of hair follicle biology.

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