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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Minoxidil-Coated Lysozyme-Shelled Microbubbes Combined With Ultrasound for the Enhancement of Hair Follicle Growth: Efficacy

Ai-Ho Liao, Yu-Jhen Huang, Ho-Chiao Chuang, Chih-Hung Wang, Cheng-Ping Shih, Chien-Ping Chiang

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ai-Ho LiaoGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yu-Jhen HuangGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ho-Chiao ChuangDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chih-Hung WangGraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cheng-Ping ShihDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chien-Ping ChiangDepartment of Dermatology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Tri-Service General Hospital · TWNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology · TWNational Taipei University of Technology · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lysozyme (Lyz) is an antimicrobial peptide, a safe adjunct, and it has been indicated that Lyz can promote vibrissae follicle growth by enhancing the hair-inductive capacity of dermal papilla cells in mice. The present study produced a new type of minoxidil (Mx)-coated antifungal Lyz-shelled microbubble (LyzMB) for inhibiting bacteria and allergies on the oily scalp. The potential of Mx-coated LyzMBs (Mx-LyzMBs) combined with ultrasound (US) and the role of LyzMB fragments in enhancing hair follicle growth were investigated. Mx grafted with LyzMBs were synthesized and the loading efficiency of Mx on cationic LyzMBs was 20.3%. The biological activity of Lyz in skin was determined using an activity assay kit and immunohistochemistry expression, and the activities in the US+Mx-LyzMBs group were 65.8 and 118.5 μU/mL at 6 and 18 h, respectively. In hair follicle cell culture experiments, the lengths of hair follicle cells were significantly enhanced in the US+Mx-LyzMBs group (108.2 ± 11.6 μm) compared to in the US+LyzMBs+Mx group (44.3 ± 9.8 μm) and the group with Mx alone (79.6 ± 12.0 μm) on day 2 (

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cavitationhair folliclelysozyme-shelled microbubblesminoxidilultrasound

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