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- Title
Distribution of polyamines may be altered in different scalp regions of patients with hair loss.
- Authors
Lee, Yu Ra; Lee, Jeongae; Lew, Bark Lynn; Sim, Woo Young; Hong, Jongki; Chung, Bong Chul
- Abstract
Hair loss, from the vertex or front of the head, generally occurs due to increased androgenic steroid levels. Androgenic steroids, particularly testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, are distributed differently across the vertex and occipital regions and are involved in inducing ornithine decarboxylase expression. Therefore, we hypothesized that the distribution of polyamines may be altered in different scalp regions. For the overall metabolic profiling of polyamines in patients with hair loss, a liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry was used. We investigated the differential polyamine levels in different regions of the hair of patients with male pattern baldness and those with female pattern hair loss. The levels of most polyamines were higher in the vertex region than in the occipital region, and N‐acetyl polyamine levels differed significantly. We proposed to test our hypothesis by profiling polyamines in human hair fibre to evaluate the distribution of metabolites in various regions of the scalp.
- Subjects
BALDNESS; POLYAMINES; LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry; SCALP; ORNITHINE decarboxylase
- Publication
Experimental Dermatology, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 9, p1083
- ISSN
0906-6705
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/exd.13998