Project description:Dermal papilla cells isolated from the human hair follicle are capable of inducing hair growth in recipient epithelia. However, demonstrating disparity from rodent dermal papilla, human cells lose this inductive competance immediately upon growth in culture under normal growth conditions. We grew dermal papilla cells in hanging drop cultures that are morphologically akin to intact dermal papilla, and found that by enhancing the environment for aggregation, we could restore the inductive capacity of human dermal papilla cells in culture. The underlying genes that regulate the inductive potential of dermal papilla cells is not well understood, and we sought to use global profiling to identify key genes and pathways related to inductive competance within dermal papilla cells. We used Affymetrix microarrays to profile human dermal papilla cells in both hair inducing, and non-hair inducing states. Affymetrix microarrays were used to to perform profiling of human dermal papilla cells, both as intact tissues (freshly isolated from scalp), and at several stages in subsequent two dimensional culture; cell explant outgrowths (p0), cells at passage 1 (p1), passage 3 (p3) and passage 5 (p5). RNA was isolated from cultured cells 72 hours after feeding. Cells at passage 3 were also grown in hanging drops to form dermal spheroids, that were used for RNA collection 48 hours after establishment. All experiments were performed using tissue from three biological replicates (#D5, D6, D7),
Project description:Dermal papilla cells isolated from the human hair follicle are capable of inducing hair growth in recipient epithelia. However, demonstrating disparity from rodent dermal papilla, human cells lose this inductive competance immediately upon growth in culture under normal growth conditions. We grew dermal papilla cells in hanging drop cultures that are morphologically akin to intact dermal papilla, and found that by enhancing the environment for aggregation, we could restore the inductive capacity of human dermal papilla cells in culture. The underlying genes that regulate the inductive potential of dermal papilla cells is not well understood, and we sought to use global profiling to identify key genes and pathways related to inductive competance within dermal papilla cells. We used Affymetrix microarrays to profile human dermal papilla cells in both hair inducing, and non-hair inducing states.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of DP signature gene expression in hTERT-immortalized balding (BAB) and non-balding (BAN) dermal papilla cells derived from frontal and occipital scalp of male patients with androgenetic alopecia Hamilton grade IV.
Project description:The use of dermal papilla cells for hair follicle (HF) regeneration is long accepted much attention. However, cultured dermal papilla cells tend to lose the hair-inducible capability during passaging, which restricts its application. Increasing evidences indicate that dermal papilla cells exert their regulatory function of HF growth mainly through their unique paracrine properties, opening up a way to exosome therapies.This study aimed to explore the effects of exosomes from high and low-passaged human scalp follicle dermal papilla cells (DP-Exos) on hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) activation and hair growth, and to investigate the underline mechanism. DP-Exos were isolated by ultracentrifugation and cultured with human scalp follicles and HFSCs. The hair elongation and cell proliferation was assessed. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western-blot were performed to detect the expression levels of a class of miRNAs and proteins which have positive roles in regulating hair growth and HFSCs proliferation. High throughput miRNA sequencing of miRNAs in high (P8) and low-passaged (P3) DP-Exos was performed, and the utmost miRNA and its target gene was identified via bioinformatics analysis.
Project description:Androgenetic alopecia (AGA, male patterned baldness) is a prevalent hair loss condition in males that develops due to the influence of androgens and genetic predisposition. With the aim of elucidating genes involved in AGA pathogenesis, we cultured immortalised balding human dermal papilla cells (BAB) and immortalised non-balding human dermal papilla cells (BAN) in 3-dimensional culture format, and compared gene expression using RNA-seq between BAB and BAN cells.
Project description:Androgenetic alopecia (AGA, male patterned baldness) is a prevalent hair loss condition in males that develops due to the influence of androgens and genetic predisposition. With the aim of elucidating genes involved in AGA pathogenesis, we cultured immortalised balding human dermal papilla cells (BAB) and immortalised non-balding human dermal papilla cells (BAN) in 2-dimensional culture format, and compared gene expression using RNA-seq between BAB and BAN cells.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of hTERT-immortalized balding (BAB) and non-balding (BAN) dermal papilla cells derived from frontal and occipital scalp of male patients with androgenetic alopecia Hamilton grade IV. Interrogation of transcriptome differences between BAB and BAN after dihydrotestosterone (DHT, active metabolite of androgen) treatment revealed significant enrichment of vasculature-related genes among down-regulated genes in BAB compared to BAN.
Project description:The dermal papilla plays a key role in the regulation of the hair biology. Accordingly, human dermal papilla cells (hDPCs) may be functionally impaired in female pattern hair loss. A previous observation that beta-estradiol (E2) increased hair density in ovariectomized mice suggested that E2 might modulate the biological properties of hDPCs. Therefore, to further explore the effect of E2 on hDPCs, a global gene expression analysis was conducted.