Shiseido starts clinical studies to transplant autologous hair root sheath cells

Dermal sheat cup cells (DSC) are involved in male and female middle-age alopecia (hair loss). In collaboration with Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Shiseido is preparing for a clinical study on 60 volunteers (male and female) where DSC are isolated from the skalp of each person, expanded in Shiseido’s cell processing center and in a single treatment, millions of autologous DSC cells are injected six times in four locations of the individual’s head

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