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Thyroid hormone augmentation accelerates hair cell maturation in human cochlear organoids

open access: yesCell Reports
Summary: Human pluripotent stem cell-derived cochlear organoids are promising tools for studying human cochlear development and disease. However, the maturation of hair cells in these organoids is slow, requiring 200 days to express the mature outer hair
Tsubasa Saeki   +6 more
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Strontium Isotope MC-ICP-MS Analysis of Hair Strands from Human Mummies: Transhumance Pastoralism of Early-Modern Individuals between Northern and Central Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Mammal hair is formed by a scleroprotein, namely keratin, composed by some major elements (C, N, H, O, S), but including also trace elements such as Sr, Pb, Fe, K, Na and Ca. The latter are fixed through diet and exposure to exogenous sources, mainly
Benazzi, Stefano   +4 more
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Determination of steroid hormones in human hair as a retrospective biomarker with HPLC-MS/MS

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2012
Statement of the problem : The analysis of steroid hormones in hair is increasingly used in psychoneuroendocrinological research as a valid and easily implementable method for the retrospective assessment of cumulative long-term hormone secretion.
Wei Gao   +6 more
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Effects of the selective TrkA agonist gambogic amide on pigmentation and growth of human hair follicles in vitro.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
The human hair follicle is a neuroendocrine mini-organ that can be used to study aging processes in vitro. Neurotrophins maintain homeostasis in hair biology via the Trk-family of receptors. TrkA, the high affinity receptor for nerve growth factor (NGF),
Remo Campiche   +3 more
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A CHIRIBAYA TEXTILE WOVEN WITH HUMAN HAIR UN TEXTIL CHIRIBAYA TEJIDO CON PELO HUMANO

open access: yesBoletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 2011
One of the textiles in the Maiman Collection is a long band that has been attributed to the Chiribaya Culture (1000 - 1350 AD), a group of Tiwanaku descendants that settled in an oasis of the Moquegua Desert in southern Peru, and in the Azapa Valley near
Alfredo Rosenzweig, Bat - ami Artzi
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Environmental Exposure of Children to Silver in Alcalá de Henares (Spain): Risk Assessment Due to Its Presence in Topsoils

open access: yesProceedings
Silver (Ag) is extensively used in a broad spectrum of personal care products and industrial products. Ag was analysed in scalp hair from 120 children (6 to 9 years old; 70 females) born/residing in Alcalá de Henares (Spain), and in randomly collected ...
Antonio Peña-Fernández   +3 more
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Trace Metal and Metalloid Profiles in Hair Samples from Children in the Oil-Producing Region of Kazakhstan

open access: yesToxics
Toxic elements are considered a significant threat to public health in oil-producing countries. Western Kazakhstan is experiencing serious environmental problems due to the development of the oil and gas industry.
Gulnara Batyrova   +7 more
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Evaluation of Surface Structure and Morphological Phenomena of Caucasian Virgin Hair with Atomic Force Microscopy

open access: yesMedicina
Background and Objectives: Atomic force microscopy (AFM) as a type of scanning microscopy (SPM), which has a resolution of fractions of a nanometer on the atomic scale, is widely used in materials science.
Karolina Krawczyk-Wołoszyn   +2 more
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Mechanical and Hysteresis Behavior of Tunisian Women Hair at 65% Relative Humidity and at Wet Conditions

open access: yesJournal of Natural Fibers, 2022
Echhida Sayahi   +3 more
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On Shape-Mediated Enrolment in Ear Biometrics

open access: yes, 2007
Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their shape with increased age. Any automatic biometric system needs enrolment to extract the target area from the background. In ear biometrics the inputs are often human head
Arbab-Zavar, Banafshe, Nixon, Mark
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