Evaluation of systemic oxidative stress in patients with premature canities and correlation of severity of hair graying with the degree of redox imbalance | Zendy

Snigdha Saxena | Zendy; RamKrishan Gautam | Zendy; Aastha Gupta | Zendy; Anubhuti Chitkara | Zendy

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Evaluation of systemic oxidative stress in patients with premature canities and correlation of severity of hair graying with the degree of redox imbalance

Author(s) -

Snigdha Saxena,

RamKrishan Gautam,

Aastha Gupta,

Anubhuti Chitkara

Publication year - 2020

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/ijt.ijt_99_19

Subject(s) - oxidative stress , medicine , correlation , degree (music) , mathematics , physics , geometry , acoustics

Premature canities etiopathogenesis is unclear, and approach to its therapy remains arbitrary. Reactive oxygen species generated during melanin biosynthesis in anagen hair bulb have been implicated in melanocyte apoptosis and hair graying. Extraneous factors, namely environmental pollution, stressful lifestyle, may compound the melanogenesis-induced endogenous oxidative stress.

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