Baldness Linked to Female Hormone
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Researchers using mice to examine a pesticide’s effects on skin cancer also developed data they say indicates baldness may be linked to the presence of a female hormone, not the absence of a male one. Dr. Robert Smart and graduate assistant Hye-Sun Oh at North Carolina State University in Raleigh were studying the pesticide’s impact when they found that the shaved skin of mice grew hair when treated with an estrogen blocker. The discovery was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is being tested for possible application in humans.
