Hair disorders cause significant distress. The main, but limited, treatment for hair loss is minoxidil, an ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel opener whose mechanism of stimulation is unclear. The regulatory component of KATP channels has three forms: SUR1, SUR2A and SUR2B which all respond to different molecules. Minoxidil only opens SUR2B channels, though SUR1 and SUR2B are present in human hair follicles. To expand our understanding, the red deer hair follicle model was used initially. Deer follicles expressed the same KATP channel genes as human follicles when growing (anagen), but no channels were detected in resting follicles. This reinforces the importance of KATP channels in active hair growth and the usefulness of the deer model. To assess whether SUR1 KATP channels are actually involved in human hair growth, the effects of a selective SUR1 channel opener, NNC55-9216, on scalp follicle growth in organ culture was examined. NNC55-9216 stimulated anagen; its effect was augmented by minoxidil. This creates the potential for more effective pharmaceuticals to treat hair loss via SUR1 channels, either alone or in combination with minoxidil. The dermal papilla plays a crucial regulatory role in hair follicle activity determining the type of hair produced. Minoxidil had no effect on dermal papilla cell proliferation, but altered the profile of proteins produced when assessed by proteomics. Further research into the roles of KATP channels and greater understanding of the significance of these protein changes should enhance our knowledge of hair biology and help the development of new, improved therapies for hair pathologies.

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A fibra capilar está exposta a danos diários, como radiação solar, poluição, ato de pentear, higienização e fatores endógenos, além de tratamentos químicos, com o alisamento capilar. Assim, os produtos cosméticos possuem grande importância, uma vez que são desenvolvidos de forma a restaurar a fibra capilar danificada, que é mais porosa e hidrofílica, e proteger os cabelos de danos futuros. Os óleos vegetais destacam-se como importantes constituintes de produtos cosméticos, seguindo uma tendência mundial de incorporar ingredientes naturais em formulações para cuidados da pele e cabelos. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do presente trabalho foi desenvolver formulações cosméticas contendo óleos vegetais para a proteção e reparação capilar. Para tal, foram selecionados os óleos vegetais de abacate, argan e moringa, e desenvolvidas formulações contendo os óleos isolados ou associados, para aplicação em cabelos submetidos ao alisamento químico. Além disso, na etapa de pré-tratamento, foi incorporado um filtro solar às formulações. Em seguida, foi feito um direcionamento racional da escolha da formulação com maior potencial para ser utilizada nas etapas posteriores, usando a análise sensorial em mechas de cabelo e avaliação das propriedades mecânicas do fio. A formulação contendo a associação dos 3 óleos vegetais foi selecionada e, então, submetida aos estudos de estabilidade e reologia. Ao final das análises, as formulações mais adequadas à proposta do estudo foram selecionadas e aplicadas em mechas de cabelo submetidas a radiação solar, em duas etapas: pré e pós-tratamento, em relação à indução do dano. Com isso, o objetivo foi verificar se os cosméticos desenvolvidos teriam efeitos na prevenção ou recuperação dos danos causados pela radiação solar. Assim, foram avaliadas imagens obtidas por meio de Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura, além da resistência mecânica do fio, dosagem da perda de triptofano por avaliação da intensidade de fluorescência e medidas da variação da cor da fibra capilar. Observou-se que os melhores resultados obtidos com os óleos vegetais foi na avaliação da resistência capilar, enquanto a adição do filtro solar teve impacto positivo também na redução da degradação do triptofano. Além disso, de maneira geral, os resultados indicam que o pré-tratamento foi mais eficaz em proteger a fibra capilar, quando comparado à capacidade de recuperar os danos por meio do pós-tratamento. Entretanto, o pós-tratamento foi importante para melhoria das propriedades sensoriais e para proteção de danos futuros. Com isso, dentre as formulações desenvolvidas, a que continha a associação dos óleos vegetais e do filtro solar, utilizada na etapa de prétratamento, foi a que levou aos melhores resultados, quando aplicada em mechas de cabelo. / Hair is a very important and distinctive feature that plays a major role in self perception and is part of the individual\'s identity. The hair fiber is exposed to daily damage, such as solar radiation, pollution and grooming, and endogenous factors, besides chemical treatments such as hair straightening. Therefore, cosmetic products are of great importance, since they are developed to restore the damaged hair fiber and to protect the hair from further damage. Vegetable oils stand out as important cosmetic ingredients, following a global trend to add natural ingredients in formulations for skin and hair care. In this context, the aim of this study was to develop cosmetic formulations containing vegetable oils for hair protection and repairing . For this purpose, three vegetable oils (avocado, argan and moringa oil) were selected for the development of cosmetic formulations for use in straightened hair. After that, the most suitable formulation was selected based on the results of sensory analysis and mechanical properties evaluation on hair tresses. The formulation containing the combination of 3 vegetable oils was selected and then evaluated in terms of stability studies and rheological behaviour. This way, the most appropriate formulations were selected and applied to strands of hair exposed to solar radiation in two different stages: pre and post-treatment in relation to the induction of the damage. Thus, the objective was to verify if the developed formulations would have effects in the prevention or repairing of solar damage hair. For this purpose, observations in Scanning Electron Microscopy, tensile properties evaluation, tryptophan degradation, and color measurements of the hair fiber were performed. Regarding the vegetable oils, the best results were found in the the tensile properties evaluation, whereas the addition of sunscreen had a positive impact on the assessment of the tensile properties evaluation and in the tryptophan degradation analysis, as well. Moreover, the results indicate that the pre-treatment was most effective than the post-treatment. Nevertheless, the posttreatment was important to improve the sensory properties. Thus, among the developed formulations, the one containing the combination of vegetable oils and the sunscreen, used in the pre-treatment, led to the best results when applied to hair tresses.

Orientador: Inés Joekes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T11:57:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alves_ScheilaDaianaFausto_M.pdf: 2196472 bytes, checksum: c6f04b6d2db3f6b1a2f50a2fabb1e67f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Os cabelos tingidos, como é de conhecimento comum, desbotam com o passar do tempo. Estudos mostram que tanto cabelos naturais quanto tingidos apresentam desbotamento quando expostos à radiação ultravioleta, e este mesmo fenômeno também é observado em outras fibras naturais. Além disso, o processo de lavagem tem grande influência nesta perda de cor. No entanto, há poucos estudos que combinem os efeitos da radiação ao de tensoativos, utilizados no processo de lavagem. Neste trabalho, estudamos a permanência da cor em cabelos Caucasianos tingidos frente à exposição à radiação UV-Vis e a três diferentes tensoativos, coco glucosídeo, cocoil sarcosinato de sódio e coco sulfato de sódio, de mesma cadeia apolar e diferente grupo polar. Cabelos castanhos foram oxidados antes do tingimento. Cabelos loiros foram tingidos sem oxidação prévia. Cabelos castanhos e loiros sem tingir foram usados como controles. Foram simulados danos diários por meio de irradiação em lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio e lavagens, em 30 ciclos sequenciais de 8 h de irradiação e uma lavagem. As diferenças de cor foram medidas por espectrofotometria de reflectância difusa.. Foram obtidos espectros no UV-Vis das soluções de lavagem com os diferentes tensoativos. Como esperado, todas as mechas, naturais e tingidas, apresentaram diferença de cor. No caso das mechas sem tingir, os espectros das soluções de lavagem correspondem aos das melaninas. No caso das mechas tingidas, as soluções de lavagem têm o mesmo perfil de absorbância que as soluções de tintura. As mechas oxidadas e tingidas desbotaram mais que as que foram apenas tingidas. Observou-se diferença entre o efeito dos tensoativos apenas nas mechas que foram tingidas. Tanto para o cabelo castanho oxidado e tingido quanto para o cabelo loiro tingido, a ordem de extração do pigmento é: coco sulfato de sódio > cocoil sarcosinato de sódio > coco glucosídeo, concordando com o respectivo índice HLB / Abstract: It is well known that dyed hair fades with time. There are studies showing that dyed and natural hair, besides other natural fibers, have their color lightened when exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Futhermore, shamppoing has a big effect on this color lightening. However, there are few studies combining the effects of radiation and surfactants. In this work, we studied the color durability in dyed Caucasian hair when exposed to radiation and three surfactants, coco glucoside, sodium cocoyl sarcosinate and sodium coco sulfate, with same carbonic chain and different polar groups. Brown hair was chemically bleached before dyeing and blond hair was dyed without previous oxidation. Brown and blond hair with no dyeing was used as control. Simulation of diary damages was done by a mercury vapor lamp and washing cycles, in 30 sequential cycles of 8 h of irradiation and one shampooing. Color changes were measured by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), using CIELab system. UV-Vis spectra were obtained from washing solutions with the different surfactants. All tresses, natural and dyed, showed color changes. UV-Vis spectra of the washing solutions of the hair without dyeing are consistent with melanin spectra. Dyed hair washing solutions spectra have the same profile of the dye solutions. The chemically bleached and dyed tresses faded more than the only dyed ones. Differences among the surfactants were observed only in the dyed tresses The pigment removal order for both, oxidized and dyed and only dyed tresses is: sodium coco sulfate > sodium cocoyl sarcosinate > coco glucoside, agreeing with their HLB index / Mestrado / Físico-Química / Mestra em Química

Numerous studies have described that physical traits correlate with psychological personal characteristics. However, associations between congenital hair characteristics and personality have not been studied yet. Such studies have focused only on the association of hair color with a few specific psychological characteristics or emotions. The aim of this study was to reveal whether people with different hair darkness, redheadedness or curliness vary in personality and sexual traits. We have found significant connection of these traits with hair darkness and especially with redheadedness and curliness for men and women. These hair characteristics were associated with self-rated personality characteristics, Big Five personality traits and sexual orientation and preferences. We have excluded the mediating role of some physical and psychological factors for many associations. However, in many cases the connections disappeared when controlling for these factors, thus there is a possibility of a mediating role of these factors in observed associations. The hypothesis concerning the effect of stereotypes based on different types of hair and self-fulfilling prophecy was also considered.

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Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) catalyses the methylation of ‘Lys-27’ of histone H3, leading to transcriptional repression of target genes through its catalytic subunit Enhancer of zeste homolog 1/2 (EZH1/2). PRC2 functions as a critical regulator of stem cells in mouse embryonic and adult tissues. However, the role of PRC2 in human skin remains largely unknown. This study investigated the role of PRC2 in human epidermal homeostasis and hair growth. The expression of EZH2 was elevated in differentiating suprabasal layers of the human epidermis. Consistently, EZH1/2 expression and enzymatic activity was upregulated in differentiating primary human keratinocytes (NHEKs) in vitro. Inhibition of EZH2 and Embryonic ectoderm development (EED) in NHEKs stimulated the expression of differentiation-associated genes, therefore leading to their premature differentiation; while inhibition of EZH1/2 reduced cell proliferation and promoted apoptosis. Silencing of EZH2 in NHEKs induced complex changes in gene expression programmes, including the upregulation of terminal differentiation genes, such as Filaggrin. EZH2 expression was downregulated in aged keratinocytes accompanied with upregulation of senescence-associated genes, p16INK4A and p19INK4D, suggesting EZH2 involvement in epidermal aging. In human anagen hair follicle (HF), EZH2 was detected in stem and progenitor cells; and hair matrix keratinocytes. Silencing EZH2 in HFs accelerated anagen-catagen transition and retarded hair growth accompanied by decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis. Silencing EZH2 in outer root sheath keratinocytes resulted in upregulation of p14ARF and K15, suggesting EZH2 involvement in regulating proliferation and stem cell activity. Thus, this study demonstrates that PRC2-mediated repression is crucial for epidermal homeostasis and hair growth. Modulating the activities of PRC2 in skin might offer a new therapeutic approach for disorders of epidermal differentiation and hair growth.

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No / Red deer stags produce an androgen-dependent mane of long hairs only in the breeding season; in the non-breeding season, when circulating androgen levels are low, the neck hair resembles the rest of the coat. This study was designed to determine whether androgen receptors are present in deer follicles throughout the year or only in the mane (neck) follicles when circulating testosterone levels are high in the breeding season. Although androgens regulate much human hair growth the mechanisms are not well understood; they are believed to act on the hair follicle epithelium via the mesenchyme-derived dermal papilla. The location of androgen receptors in the follicle was investigated by immunohistochemistry and androgen binding was measured biochemically in cultured dermal papilla cells derived from mane and flank follicles during the breeding season and from neck follicles during the non-breeding season. Immunohistochemistry of frozen skin sections using a polyclonal antibody to the androgen receptor localised nuclear staining only in the dermal papilla cells of mane follicles. Saturation analysis assays of 14 primary dermal papilla cell lines using [(3)H]-mibolerone demonstrated high-affinity, low-capacity androgen receptors were present only in mane (breeding season neck) cells; competition studies with other steroids confirmed the specificity of the receptors. Androgen receptors were not detectable in cells from either the breeding season flank nor the non-breeding season neck follicles. The unusual biological model offered by red deer of androgen-dependent hair being produced on the neck in the breeding, but not the non-breeding season, has allowed confirmation that androgen receptors are required in follicle dermal papilla cells for an androgen response; this concurs with previous human studies. In addition, the absence of receptors in the non-breeding season follicles demonstrates that receptors are not expressed unless the follicle is responding to androgens. Androgen receptors may be induced in mane follicles by seasonal changes in circulating hormone(s).

No / The biochemistry of hair pigmentation is a complex field involving a plethora of protein and peptide mechanisms. The in loco factory for melanin formation is the hair follicle melanocyte, but it is common knowledge that melanogenesis results from a fine tuned concerted interaction between the cells of the entire dermal papilla in the anagen hair follicle. The key enzyme is tyrosinase to initiate the active pigmentation machinery. Hence, an intricate understanding from transcription of mRNA to enzyme activity, including enzyme kinetics, substrate supply, optimal pH, cAMP signaling, is a must. Moreover, the role of reactive oxygen species on enzyme regulation and functionality needs to be taken into account. So far our knowledge on the entire hair cycle relies on the murine model of the C57BL/6 mouse. Whether this data can be translated into humans still needs to be shown. This article aims to focus on the effect of H2O2-redox homeostasis on hair follicle pigmentation via tyrosinase, its substrate supply and signal transduction as well as the role of methionine sulfoxide repair via methionine sulfoxide reductases A and B (MSRA and B).