How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
Abstract
Signalling from the sympathetic nervous system of mice when 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.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1038/d41586-019-03949-8
- Bibcode:
- 2020Natur.577..623C