L Sornakumar,C Shanmuga Sekar,Cr Srinivas
L Sornakumar
Alopecia areata is characterized by patchy hair loss involving the scalp, eyelashes, and beard. The disease may at times lead to complete baldness of the scalp (alopecia totalis) or of the entire body (alopecia universalis). Alopecia totali...
Hua Gong,Huitong Zhou,Grant W McKenzie et al.
Hua Gong et al.
Keratin associated proteins (KAPs) are a class of proteins that associate with keratin intermediate filament proteins through disulphide linkages to give fibres such as hair and wool their unique properties. Up to 90 proteins from some 25 f...
The Role of Liquid-crystalline Structures in the Morphogenesis of Animal Fibers [0.03%]
液晶结构在动物纤维形态发生中的作用
A John McKinnon,Duane P Harland
A John McKinnon
The role of liquid-crystalline (mesophase) structures in extra-cellular morphogenesis is widely recognized. This paper summarizes a model for the more unusual case of intra-cellular mesophases. In the nascent mammalian hair cortex, cell dif...
Is dandruff a disease? [0.03%]
头皮屑是疾病吗？
Frederick Manuel
Frederick Manuel
Mahajan Rajiv,Nr Singh
Mahajan Rajiv
M Kumaresan
M Kumaresan
Diffuse neurofibroma of the scalp presenting as circumscribed alopecic patch [0.03%]
弥漫于头皮的神经纤维瘤表现为界限清楚的斑片状脱发
Bc Sharath Kumar,Mg Gopal,Ankur Talwar et al.
Bc Sharath Kumar et al.
Neurofibroma is a benign tumor of the peripheral nerve sheath characterized by proliferation of Schwann cells, perineural cells and endoneurial fibroblasts. Different types of neurofibromas can be identified, including localized, plexiform,...
Monilethrix in pattern distribution in siblings: diagnosis by trichoscopy [0.03%]
头发病理性分型分布的毛发镜诊断——一例母粒样头发病例报告
Nilam Jain,Uday Khopkar
Nilam Jain
Monilethrix is a heritable hair shaft defect characterized by localized or diffuse alopecia resulting from hair fragility over friction areas, predominantly the temporal and occipital regions, and follicular keratosis over the occipital reg...
G Meera,D Prabhavathy,S Jayakumar et al.
G Meera et al.
Naxos disease is a rare cardiocutaneous disorder characterized by palmoplantar keratoderma, woolly hair and arrythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. We report two siblings with Naxos disease with right middle lobe syndrome in one of ...
Preeti Parakh,Mona Srivastava
Preeti Parakh
Trichotillomania is a poorly understood complex disorder of multifaceted pathology which often requires an interdisciplinary approach for management. While sharing similarities with obsessive-compulsive disorder, compelling differences betw...