Name: How does the thyroid...
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Description: It does that by using hormones to deliver messages to every single one of them. This high-ranking organ is made up of lobules that each contains smaller cells called follicles, which store the hormones the thyroid sends out into your blood. Two of the most important hormones it produces

Kiki Smith

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

American Artist

Anthony Carrigan

I have alopecia. That's an autoimmune condition. I don't like to say disease because I don't feel like I'm diseased. So it's a condition. And it's like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.

American Actor

Mark Hyman

Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.

American Author

Joe Buck

You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.

American Celebrity

Cobie Smulders

Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.

Canadian Actress

Benedict Cumberbatch

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

English Actor

Indicates where hair originates in skin. Remember it's singular when referring to one hair.

Hair Growth

Often used in beauty and skincare topics, especially when discussing pores and hair removal.

Skincare Context

While tiny, some follicles are visible as small dots on the skin, especially on the face and scalp.

Visible to Eye

Think of a follicle as a protective container in the body for developing cells.

Biological Casing

Doctors examine follicles when diagnosing certain glandular conditions.

Medical Relevance

Follicles are parts of complex body systems, often discussed in advanced biology or medicine.

Glandular Systems

In human female biology, 'follicle' relates to menstrual cycles and fertility.

Reproductive Biology

In conversations about IVF or fertility, 'follicle' is often mentioned as part of the process.

Fertility Treatments

Changes in follicle development can indicate hormonal imbalances or changes in health.

Hormonal Impact

 It does that by using hormones to deliver messages to every single one of them. This high-ranking organ is made up of lobules that each contains smaller cells called follicles, which store the hormones the thyroid sends out into your blood. Two of the most important hormones it produces

How does the thyroid...

 filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.

Why do we have hair in...

 such as strong anti-nausea medications. For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels, limiting the amount of chemotherapy drugs that reach hair follicles. And once a course of chemo treatment is over,

How does chemotherapy...

 Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.

How menstruation works -...

 Follicles, the tiny cavities that grow hairs all over our body, make for especially popular living quarters. Malassezia are fond of these hideouts because they contain glands that secrete an oil called sebum that’s thought to lubricate and strengthen our hair.

What causes dandruff,...

 the activity of these cells to encourage follicles to start producing hair again. And in the meantime, while scientists hone their hair-reviving methods, anyone going bald, or considering baldness, can remember that they're in great company.

Why do some people go...

 Nothing. It literally, most likely, just means that their hair follicles respond to testosterone in different ways. Yet, how many times have you heard a man ashamed about something like this? Imagine a world where we could live in a society

The way we think about...

 As it grows and continues to release estrogen, this hormone not only helps coordinate growth and preparation of the uterus, it also communicates to the brain how well the follicle is developing. When the estrogen level is high enough,

How in vitro fertilizatio...

 plummeting these penguins have journeyed here to find a partner and to mate now inside the female's body another journey starts here in her ovary the largest of a cluster of follicles as reached

How An Egg Becomes A...

 into hair follicles and into the pores there could be hundreds of thousands or even millions in the individual person we don't really know we know that

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