We were recently asked to contribute to an article on Female hair loss in the Washington Post. Interestingly, years ago seventy percent of our hair loss patients were males wanting a surgical...
Cells are the building blocks of tissue, and tissues are the basic unit of function in the body. Generally, groups of cells make and secrete their own support structures, called extra-cellular matrix.
Joseph Greco has co-authored another textbook chapter, Platelet Rich Plasma and Stem Cells with Gilbert Amgar (Paris) and Fabio Rinaldi (Milan) in Pierre Bouhanna’s textbook, The Alopecia’s: Diagnosis and Treatment, 2015. The chapter details the use of PRP and stem cells in surgical hair restoration...
The ability to safely heal damaged tissue and regenerate new tissue with one’s own cells is the future of Regenerative Medicine. It is now possible to restore damaged cells in humans and animals by simply taking their own blood, processing it to increase the bodies...
In a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine has found that stem cells play an unexpected role in explaining what happens in bald scalp. Using cell samples from men undergoing hair transplants,...
In medicine, one can “never say never”, but science demonstrates that PRP does not cause tumors. The secreted growth factors immediately bind to the external surface of the cell membranes of cells in the graft, flap, or wound via transmembrane receptors. Studies have shown that...