Book Review: Hair and Its Disorders: Biology, Pathology and Management

Abstract

1. Structure and function of hair follicle / Bo Forslind -- 2. Developmental biology of hair follicles and other skin appendages / Tobey Wu-Kuo and Cheng-Ming Chuong -- 3. Hair follicle stem cells: their location and roles / George Cotsarelis -- 4. Hair pigmentation / Jerome Castanet and Jean-Paul Ortonne -- 5. Androgens: the main regulator of human hair growth / Valerie A. Randall -- 6. Control of the hair follicle growth cycle / Ralf Paus, Sven Muller-Rover and Ian McKay -- 7. Signalling molecules in human hair follicle cell populations / Ulrike Blume-Peytavi and Nathalie Mandt -- 8. roles of growth factors in hair follicles: investigations using cultured hair follicles / Michael P. Philpott -- 9. Human hair follicle grafts in nude mice: an important in vivo model for investigating the control of hair growth / Dominique Van Neste and Bernadette de Brouwer -- 10. biology of androgenetic alopecia / 20. Hair follicle innervation in alopecia areata / Maria K. Hordinsky and Marna Ericson -- 21. Atypical clinical forms of alopecia areata / Maria Jose Garcia-Hernandez and Francisco M. Camacho -- 22. Hair anomalies and syndrome recognition / Rudolf Happle -- 23. New genetic diseases characterized by hypotrichosis / Ramon Grimalt -- 24. Congenital hypertrichosis / Antonella Tosti and Bianca Maria Piraccini -- 25. Metabolic disorders involving the hair / Christoph C. Geilen, Ulrike Blume-Peytavi and Constantin E. Orfanos -- 26. Menkes' disease / Jose Luis Diaz-Perez -- 27. Office diagnosis of hair shaft abnormalities / David A. Whiting -- 28. Acquired hair kinking / Juan Ferrando -- 29. Loose anagen hair syndrome / Rachel Reynolds and Howard P. Baden -- 30. Shaft effects from cosmetics and styling / Ramon Grimalt and Juan Ferrando -- 31. Observations on the clinical features of hypertrichosis / Rodney D. Sinclair -- 32. Pathogenesis of hirsutism / Dimitris Rigopoulos and Sofia Georgala -- 33. Clinical features of hirsutism: variations with age and race / David de Berker -- 34. Constitutional hirsutism: the SAHA syndrome / Francisco M. Camacho -- 35. Drug treatment of hirsutism / Francisco M. Camacho -- 36. Laser treatment / Hugh Zachariae and Peter Bjerring.