Changing human hair fibre colour and shape from the follicle

Funding Information: This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2020 unit, and by LABBELS – Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, LA/P/0029/2020. Teresa Matamá would like to acknowledge her Post-doctoral scholarship funded by FCT ( SFRH/BPD/102153/2014 ). Cristiana Costa would like to acknowledge her PhD scholarship funded by FCT ( SFRH/BD/139522/2018 ). Bruno Fernandes would like to acknowledge his PhD scholarship funded by FCT (SFRH/BD/131824/2017). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. Raquel Andrade, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve for her help and guidance regarding the in situ hybridization technique. The authors would like to acknowledge Doctor Francisco X. Real (Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain) and Doctor Sofia Magina (Centro de Investigação Médica, Faculdade Medicina do Porto, Portugal) for their kind gifts, the SK-Mel-23 and SK-Mel-1 cell lines, respectively. The authors would like to acknowledge Marisa Azevedo, Senior Account Manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Portugal, and María Jesús García Ortiz, Senior Field Application Scientist of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Spain, for their incredible help and support of our qPCR experiments. The authors would like to acknowledge Prof Tim Beißbarth, Head of the Department Medical Bioinformatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, for his valuable information on web tools for functional enrichment analysis. The authors would like to acknowledge Phillippe by Almada, Termas de S. Pedro do Sul, and Castelbel for providing us with free samples of their dermo-cosmetic products to thank our volunteers. The authors are grateful to all the volunteers who kindly and patiently provided their hair follicles and participated in our clinical study with the intervention of cosmetics. This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2020 unit, and by LABBELS – Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, LA/P/0029/2020. Teresa Matamá would like to acknowledge her Post-doctoral scholarship funded by FCT (SFRH/BPD/102153/2014). Cristiana Costa would like to acknowledge her PhD scholarship funded by FCT (SFRH/BD/139522/2018). Bruno Fernandes would like to acknowledge his PhD scholarship funded by FCT (SFRH/BD/131824/2017). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. Publisher Copyright: © 2024