Hair grows hair: Dual-effective hair regrowth through a hair enhanced dissolvable microneedle patch cooperated with the pure yellow light irradiation

• DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101188
• Publication Date: 2021-10-08T07:34:15Z
• Authors: Can Hong; Guoliang Zhang; Wei Zhang; Jiaqi Liu; Jiao Zhang; Yutong Chen; Haichuan Peng; Yukai Cheng; Xingwei Ding; Hongbo Xin; Xiaolei Wang
• Keywords: 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology

Abstract Inspired by the progress of seed germination (plowing, breeding and lighting), we presented a similar collaborative hair growth technology, which integrated soluble microneedle patches (MNs) with the exosomes of human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs) and hair nanoparticles (HNP). The HNP-decorated microneedle patches (HMNs) could successfully penetrate the cuticle (plowing) and assist in delivering the exosomes of hAMSCs into the dermis to excite hair follicles stem cells (breeding), allowing hair follicles to entry anagen from telogen. Meanwhile, our homemade low-color-temperature yellow light (1900 K) also alleviated the inflammation of hair follicles (lighting), thus further promoting hair regrowth. After conducting animal experiments of three kinds of models, our data demonstrated this synergistic strategy could effectively facilitate hair regrowth within 7 days compared with the conventional monotherapy. In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility studies also showed inconspicuous adverse effects or inflammation, elucidating its broad prospect for clinical application.