Method for stimulating hair follicle cell proliferation
Patent Number: 7,335,641
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday May 24th, 2001
Date Issued: Tuesday February 26th, 2008
Assignee: Unknown Assignee(s)
Inventors: Kim; Soogyun (Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, KR), Jang; Hyun-Jun (Youngdeungpo-du, Seoul, KR)
From Class: Expansion
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The current patent covers ways of induce proliferation of hair follicle cells through administration of a specific protein or variants of it. The protein is called "hair follicle growth factor" or "HFGF". HFGF is considered to be an allelic form of keratinocyte growth factor-2 (KGF-2) wherein HFGF has a glutamic acid residue (Glu) at position 87, whereas KGF-2 has a lysine residue (Lys) at this position.
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