How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white

Shayla A. Clark and Christopher D. Deppmann ()

Nature, 2020, vol. 577, issue 7792, 623-624

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.

Keywords: Stem cells; Neuroscience; Physiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-03949-8

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