Open AccessA study of noncultured extracted hair follicle outer root sheath cell suspension for transplantation in vitiligo
Author(s) -
Abhijay Shah,
Ritu K Marfatia,
Siddhartha S Saikia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of trichology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0974-9241
pISSN - 0974-7753
DOI - 10.4103/0974-7753.188042
Subject(s) - vitiligo , hair follicle , outer root sheath , suspension culture , transplantation , suspension (topology) , biology , medicine , surgery , cell culture , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , genetics , mathematics , homotopy , pure mathematics
Vitiligo surgeries have come a long way from tissue grafts to cultured and non cultured cell transplantation. Extracted hair follicle outer root sheath cell transplantation (EHF ORS) suspension is more enriched with melanocyte. In a hair bulb, there is one melanocyte for every five keratinocytes which is much higher than the epidermal melanin unit.