GorillaHead
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Teneligliptin-induced hair loss: A case report
Diabetes mellitus (DM) refers to a group of common metabolic disorders that share the common phenotype of hyperglycemia secondary to various pathophysiologic mechanisms that include reduced insulin secretion, decreased glucose utilization, and increased ...
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If this study is to be trusted. Then we just made a huge leap in understanding male pattern baldness.
MPB is almost certainly related to insulin without a doubt as both genes related to insulin have been implicated. and conditions such as myotonic dytrophy highly correlated to mpb and also have insulin related pathology.
I will need to spend more time to understand if increasing dpp-4 is the simple solution to stopping the hairloss or if the drug does more than just inhibit dpp-4.
This is is exciting.