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Summary: It’s normal for people to loss around one-hundred hairs a day, but there is a hair loss disease that rare but it’s hereditary called Hypotrichosis simplex. They identified a receptor that is connected to hair growth. This disease is very rare but it may be crucial in finding an understanding the “mechanisms of hair growth.” What it does it stops certain receptor structures on the exterior of hair follicle cells from properly shaping. They also discovered that when “messengers from outside bind to these receptors” they turn on a chain reaction in the cell’s core which is essential for the hair follicle to work properly. “The defective receptor structure falls into the category of what are known as G-protein-coupled receptors,” Professor Dr. Markus Nothen says. This is a good thing because they compatible places for the drug treatments. They also recognized an endogenous [arising from within] messenger that attaches itself to the hair follicle and then to the receptor.
Significance: This is important because now they can help treat hair loss and research more into how to help people who deal with Hypotrichosis simplex. I think it would be horrible if you lost your hair when you were just a child, you would have to go through so much and it would probably affect your psychological state. It might also lead us to being able to grow more hair if someone wanted long hair. So I think the effects of this study will provide help to the people who are losing their hair but it might also open a new business opportunity just for materialist wants.

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/02/24/getting_to_the_roots_of_hair_loss.html