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ARTICLE | Targets & Mechanisms

FGF9 for baldness

June 20, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

A University of Pennsylvania team has found that increasing fibroblast growth factor 9 levels in wounded skin can promote the growth of hair follicles in mice.1 Follica Inc. has licensed the findings and plans to test the effects of the growth factor in hair growth indications.

Male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia, occurs when circulating hormones cause hair follicles to shrink and eventually stop producing hair. Treatments include Rogaine minoxidil from ...