And the reason for baldness is?

STEED · 08-30-06, 10:20 AM

Well I am going bald, the old bald patch is coming on nicely and sooner or later time to chop it all off and go for the Kojak look.

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Mice might provide the reason for baldness

Big News Network.com
Tuesday 29th August, 2006 (UPI)

British scientists say they may have discovered why some people are hairier than others, as well as new information about baldness.

The University of Manchester team has discovered the molecular processes that decide which embryonic skin cells will form into hair follicles, determining the body's hair pattern.

The findings in mice will be of interest to scientists looking at male-pattern baldness, but have more direct implications for people who suffer from ectodermal dysplasia -- a range of conditions in which skin cells fail to develop into other tissue, including hair follicles.

During human development, skin cells have the ability to turn into other types of cells to form hair follicles, sweat glands, teeth and nails, said Dr. Denis Headon, who led the research. Which cells are transformed into hair follicles is determined by three proteins that are produced by our genes.

The team found that cells given the genetic command to become hair follicles will send out signals to neighboring cells to prevent them from doing likewise, so producing a specific hair pattern.

The research ... could provide clues as to why follicles shrink and hair growth diminishes in certain men as they get older, said Headon.

http://www.britainnews.net/story/79d362a4c63668b7

Kapitan · 08-30-06, 10:47 AM

You can have some of my hair steed, my legs are so hairy that at a distance it looks like im wearing a pair of tieghts.

STEED · 08-30-06, 10:56 AM

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Tyred strip wax?

Kapitan · 08-30-06, 11:02 AM

I have had a brazilian wax and its painful !!!! did that for chairty its whats known as a bum back and crack wax.

STEED · 08-30-06, 11:06 AM

OUCH

What more can I say.

Perilscope · 08-30-06, 11:13 AM

Thank goodness my genes are okay, for that part at least...

Konovalov · 08-31-06, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan

I have had a brazilian wax and its painful !!!! did that for chairty its whats known as a bum back and crack wax.

I think it's called a "back, sack and crack wax." Ouch.

scandium · 08-31-06, 09:09 AM

I'd always thought it was something genetic that you'd inherited on the maternal side. :hmm: But I really have no idea. My hair is of the dry variety (not dandruff level dry, but not far off) and has been slowly thinning at the temples for the last few years, but not noticably so other than to me (I'm in my early 30s). My dad was bald by the time he hit 40, I'm hoping to escape the same fate since I'm not into the shaved head + goatee look that's become the fad among those with receeding hairlines (though its a big step up from the 80s comb over

).

Fish · 08-30-06, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan

You can have some of my hair steed, my legs are so hairy that at a distance it looks like im wearing a pair of tieghts.

I was 42 before I got my first breast hair. On a evening my wife yelled I see hair on your breast.

STEED · 08-30-06, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Fish

I was 42 before I got my first breast hair. On a evening my wife yelled I see hair on your breast.

SHOCKING

More info please.

Fish · 08-30-06, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEED

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish

I was 42 before I got my first breast hair. On a evening my wife yelled I see hair on your breast.

SHOCKING

More info please.

No

STEED · 08-30-06, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEED

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish

I was 42 before I got my first breast hair. On a evening my wife yelled I see hair on your breast.

SHOCKING

More info please.

No

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Frenssen · 09-01-06, 09:42 AM

I started thinning im my mid-twenties and I started buzzing my head when I was 28. It was strange in the beginning, but people got used to it quickly. I have never thought about toupees, medicines etc. I`m just as happy with little hair as I was with dark curls

08-30-06, 10:47 AM	#2
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	You can have some of my hair steed, my legs are so hairy that at a distance it looks like im wearing a pair of tieghts. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

08-30-06, 10:56 AM	#3
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Tyred strip wax? __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-30-06, 11:02 AM	#4
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	I have had a brazilian wax and its painful !!!! did that for chairty its whats known as a bum back and crack wax. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

08-30-06, 11:06 AM	#5
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	OUCH What more can I say. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-31-06, 09:09 AM	#8
scandium Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,098 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'd always thought it was something genetic that you'd inherited on the maternal side. :hmm: But I really have no idea. My hair is of the dry variety (not dandruff level dry, but not far off) and has been slowly thinning at the temples for the last few years, but not noticably so other than to me (I'm in my early 30s). My dad was bald by the time he hit 40, I'm hoping to escape the same fate since I'm not into the shaved head + goatee look that's become the fad among those with receeding hairlines (though its a big step up from the 80s comb over ). __________________ What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? -- George Orwell

08-30-06, 11:13 AM	#6
Perilscope Sonar Guy Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montréal Posts: 399 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thank goodness my genes are okay, for that part at least...

09-01-06, 09:42 AM	#13
Frenssen Sparky Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 155 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I started thinning im my mid-twenties and I started buzzing my head when I was 28. It was strange in the beginning, but people got used to it quickly. I have never thought about toupees, medicines etc. I`m just as happy with little hair as I was with dark curls

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