Topical products can change the hair's appearance but not the follicle itself, he cautions.
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However, taking a less powerful drug called indomethacin can delay the rupture of the ovarian follicle.
Often the images show something else entirely, such as an infected hair follicle.
Shiny, healthy hair starts with the vitality of cells in the hair follicle, where hair is manufactured, says Katz.
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Sometimes an epidermoid cyst has a central opening the remnant of a hair follicle from which the cyst originally formed that's plugged by a tiny blackhead.
Vitamins B6, B12, and folate nourish follicle cells, too.
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The hormone is produced by the ovary in the process of forming a follicle and can give a general sense if a woman has a low, medium or high reserve of eggs.
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Every drop of saliva you leave on a Styrofoam coffee cup or hair follicle that falls to the floor contains DNA that in theory can be tested for everything from ancestry to disease risk.
Common problems include overactive oil glands, bacteria growth within follicles and pores and problems with the keratinization process, where cells are normally sloughed off the skin, pushed out of the hair follicle and replaced by new cells.
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Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
Although it is understandably tight-lipped about the exact mechanism behind its success, one probably enlists the help of cells called keratinocytes, which interact naturally with the dermal papilla cells of the hair follicle and secrete a chemical factor that supports their growth.
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