RALEIGH, N.C. - Researchers using mice to examine a pesticide's effects on skin cancer have also developed data they say indicate baldness may be linked to the presence of a female hormone, not the absence of a male one.
Dr. Robert Smart and graduate assistant Hye-Sun Oh were studying the pesticide's impact when they found that the shaved skin of mice grew hair when treated with a new type of estrogen blocker.
"Estrogen was playing some fundamental role in skin biology," Smart said.
He said they want to compare the mice frindings with humans.