Handbook of hair in health and disease
Hair is a major component of the body's tissue system that contributes to the individual's make up and confers a large degree of personal identity. Apart from its visible façade, hair also has a functional role. It has an unique structure and complex mole
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Handbook of hair in health and disease
Edited by Professor Victor R. Preedy PhD DSc FRSPH FIBiol FRCPath
Human Health Handbooks no. 1 ISSN 2212-375X
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ISBN: 978-90-8686-174-3 e-ISBN: 978-90-8686-728-8 DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-728-8
First published, 2012
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This book is dedicated to my daughter Sophie
Table of contents General introduction and overviews 1. Hair in health and disease: an introduction Taneeta Ganguly and Pratima Karnik
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2. The color of human hair Christoph G. Birngruber and Marcel A. Verhoff
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3. Hair loss in the elderly Chao-Chun Yang, Antonia Todorova and Wenchieh Chen
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4. Hair loss in women Francisco M. Camacho Martínez
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5. Male androgenetic alopecia Salvador Arias-Santiago, Agustín Buendía-Eisman, María Teresa Gutiérrez-Salmerón and Salvio Serrano-Ortega
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6. Excess hair growth Daisy Kopera
119
7. Ethnopharmacology and hair: Indian perspectives Neetu Sabarwal, C.K. Sudhakar, Rakesh Barik, Sanjay Jain and Dhanila Varkey
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8. Neonatal hair analysis to reveal gestational exposure to drugs Donata Favretto
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Molecular and cellular biology and hair 9. Plucked hair: how to get stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells for future clinical applications Núria Montserrat and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte 10. Alopecia areata and chemokine Yoshihiro Kuwano and Manabu Fujimoto
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11. Natural and unnatural hair loss as detected in the forensic context Elizabeth M. Brooks and James Robertson
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Dietary toxicity and pathological history 12. Arsenic in the hair Simone F.P. Pereira, Johny S. Oliveira and Rajkumar Rajendram
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13. Ethyl glucuronide in hair and alcohol misuse Ronald Agius
257
14. Hair mineral analysis in the assessment of human exposure to metals Katarzyna Chojnacka and Marcin Mikulewicz
279
15. Potentially toxic elements, pollution and hair Anna Capasso, Alberto Loizzo and Sergio Caroli
295
16. Natural radionuclides in human hair Maarit Muikku and Weibo Li
317
17. Stable isotope ratio analysis in human hair Klaus J. Petzke and Benjamin T. Fuller
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Diseases of hair a
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