THE GROWTH OF HAIR FOLLICLES IN WAVES *
THE GROWTH OF HAIR FOLLICLES IN WAVES *
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1960.tb40912.x
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发表时间:
1959-11
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
H. B. Chase;G. J. Eaton
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作者:
H. B. Chase;G. J. Eaton
Waves of hair growth occur in several mammals, such as the mouse, rat, hamster, chinchilla, and rabbit, but do not occur as regular features in some other mammals: for example, the guinea pig and man. A wave may be defined as an orderly progression in time and space of follicles entering the growth phase, that is, anagen, of their cycles. A nonwave situation exists either when all follicles enter into activity simultaneously or, conversely, when follicles enter into this phase individually and without any synchronism or relationship with neighboring follicles. The mosaic type of hair replacement in the guinea pig is an example of the latter situation (Chase, 1954), each follicle proceeding through its growth cycle generations independently and with its own frequency. The presence of a wave, that is, the orderly spreading of the skin area containing follicular activity, indicates a correlation of follicles, due either to a common and spreading initiator acting on the follicles or to an action by some means of growing follicles on their resting neighbors. Synchronism of activity can also occur without the phenomenon of a wave, as in nonspreading islands of hair growth in older mice, indicating the correlation and interdependence of follicles, but an increasing refractoriness or inability of resting follicles to respond to the presence of their growing neighbors. The wave phenomenon is then an intermediate situation between the presence of an island of simultaneous activity and the occurrence of simultaneous activity over the whole animal. The rapidity of a wave is a reflection of the number of resting follicles ahead of the advancing edge that become active per unit time. An area of activity may have part of its periphery extending rapidly and another part not advancing a t all. Two waves, especially from opposite sides, may coalesce and then proceed anteriorly or posteriorly, or both. Some areas remain quiescent (lag areas), that is, do not become involved in a wave, for one generation, but may be responsive and participate a t the time of the next hair generation wave. Reported in this paper will be the observations on the repeated spontaneous hair growth waves in colored male and female mice of different strains, ages, and physiological conditions. The complete pelage was kept carefully clipped with electric clippers, the progress of waves being observed by the presence of color due to active hair bulbs in the skin. The outlines of these areas were drawn a t intervals of two days or less. Also reported and summarized in this paper will be the results of inducing hair growth by the plucking of resting hairs from different areas a t different ages and the plucking of areas of different sizes. A total of 230 mice of strains C57 BL, C57 BR, DBA, and C3H were observed * The work described in this paper was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid C-592 from the National Cancer Institute, Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.; by Contract AT (30-1)2018 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C.; and by Contract 4 F 29 (600)-14?6 from the United States Air Force, Washington, D. C.