How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/d41586-019-03949-8 and PMC identifier PMC4087061.
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Abstract
Signalling from the sympathetic nervous system of mice subjected to stress leads to the depletion of a stem-cell population in their hair follicles. This discovery sheds light on why stress turns hair prematurely grey.