Abstract
Proliferative activity and differentiation rate of hair follicle cells determine the shape of the hair and parameters of hair growth. The hair growth rate and changes of geometric parameters of the hair shaft during its elongation (in time) are analyzed to reconstruct the proliferation dynamics of follicle matrix cells. The reconstruction demonstrated that the number of cells of hair follicle matrix increases in a typical manner, including the phase of exponential growth and the stationary phase.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Kamimura, J., Lee, D., Baden, H.P., Brisette, J., and Dotto, G.P., Primary Mouse Keratinocytes Culrures Contain Hair Follicle Progenitor Cells with Multiple Differential Potential, J. Invest. Dermatol., 1998, vol. 110, pp. 534–540.
Livshits, V.A., Clonal Theory of Differentiation of B. Mints and “Law 2n” for the Number of Cells and Fibers in Brain Formations, Ontogenez, 1978, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 640–641.
Livshits, V.A., Statistic Significance of Rule 2n for the Number of Muscle Fibers in the Muscle of Mammals, Ontogenez, 1978, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 315–316.
Livshits, V.A., Statistic Significance of Rule 2k for the Numbers of Neurons in Formations of the Brain, Ontogenesis, 1986, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 333–336.
Livshits, V.A., Statistic Significance of Rule 2k for the Absolute Number of Fat Cells in Fat Depots of Mammals, Ontogenezis, 1987, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 664–665.
Morris, V.B. and Cowan, R., A Growth Curve of Cell Numbers in the Neural Retina of Embryonic Chicks, Cell Tissue Kinet., 1984, vol. 17, pp. 199–208.
Morris, V.B. and Cowan, R., An Analysis of the Growth of the Retinal Cell Population in Embryonic Chicks Yielding Proliferative Ratios, Numbers of Proliferative and Non-Proliferative Cells and Cell-Cycle Times for Successive Generations of Cell Cycles, Cell Prolif., 1995, vol. 28, pp. 373–391.
Sokolov, V.E., Skurat, L.N., Stepanova, L.V., et al., Rukovodstvo po izucheniyu kozhnogo pokrova mlekopitayushchikh (Handbook of Investigation of Skin Cover of Mammals), Moscow, 1988 [in Russian].
Stenn, K.S. and Paus, R. Control of Hair Follicle Cycling, Physiol. Rev., 2001, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 449–494.
Vsevolodov, E.B., Volosysnye follikuly (Hair Follicles), Alma-Ata, 1979 [in Russian].
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © P.D. Golichenkova, Yu.K. Doronin, 2008, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2008, No. 2, pp. 32–35.
About this article
Cite this article
Golichenkova, P.D., Doronin, Y.K. Reconstruction of proliferative activity of hair follicle cells based on the geometric parameters of the hair shaft. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 63, 77–79 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392508020065
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392508020065