The researchers think that they have staggered across a rapid acting drug which reverses baldness. The new treatment would be available in only five years. It appears a treatment really is on horizon that proffers hope of a new hairy future to all those who had reconciled themselves to living with a shiny pate.
The lab studies of a chemical known as astressin-B revealed astonishing results for regrowth of hair after one jab daily for consecutive five days. The invention was an unintentional side-effect of laboratory tests to perceive if the drug could prevent stomach problem related to stress.
The study trails were conducted on mice and more study is required to perceive whether chemical will have similar effect on human beings. The burst through arrives from University of California Los Angeles where researchers who were investigating mice with gut problems stimulated by a stress hormone. The coats of mice also become thin as they age.
It escort to their backs ultimately getting bald. But researchers were amazed to observe that the fur of mice began to regrow quickly when they were given astressin-B. The treatment worked so well that after three month’s treatment the bald mice were identical to their healthy cage mates, reported the study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
The results are amazing and could open new prospects to treat hair loss in humans. Moreover, just one jab of the drug a day for five days was enough to activate the regrowth and maintain the effects for up to four months, explained researcher Dr Million Mulugeta.
This is a relatively long time, bearing in mind that a mouse’s life span is less than two years. Further test will show if the treatment work much well than minoxidil, one of the drugs of choice in treating hair loss. The research team is now planning to study how drug triggers regrowth in humans.
It is expected new treatment will help sufferers of male pattern baldness, which affects two-thirds of men as they age, plus men and women with alopecia, in which small bald patches appear on the scalp.