Hair transplant surgeons harvest follicles from this “donor area” at the back of the scalp by punching small openings in the ...

Typical are so-called hair tufts, where multiple hair shafts emerge from one dilated follicle opening. This is caused by fibrosis of adjacent follicular units and retention of telogen hairs within ...

But Dr Dray insisted it's "not unusual" for a person to have a strand, or multiple ... follicle attempts to continue to colour the hair but cannot produce the pigments as effectively as it used to ...

Hair follicles are one of the few immunoprivileged parts of the body -- that is, they are protected from the immune system so the body doesn't treat them as foreign and attack them. Researchers ...

THE hair of the rabbit grows from a compound follicle 1 which contains one large outercoat hair, a few smaller outercoat hairs of intermediate morphology and numerous fine undercoat hairs.

But there is one big exception: Ingrown hair, the painful cousin to the harmless, yet pesky pimple. Ingrown hairs form when a hair follicle can't get past a clogged pore, making the hair curl back ...