Treatment of alopecia by micropore delivery of stem cells

A method of restoring hair to skin that has suffered hair loss includes optically ablating an array of spaced-apart microchannels or voids into the skin and transplanting into the voids stem cells, a scaffold and a differentiation factor for causing the stem cells to differentiate into hair follicle...

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Main Authors Hantash, Basil M, Frangineas, George, DeBenedictis, Leonard C
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 26.06.2012
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Summary:A method of restoring hair to skin that has suffered hair loss includes optically ablating an array of spaced-apart microchannels or voids into the skin and transplanting into the voids stem cells, a scaffold and a differentiation factor for causing the stem cells to differentiate into hair follicles.