Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?

Serenoa repens is one among the many naturally occurring 5 alpha reductase (5aR) inhibitors which has gained popularity as a magical remedy for androgenetic alopecia. It is widely advertised on the web and sold by direct marketing. Used as a self-medication, there is a risk of missing the early dete...

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Autor principal: Murugusundram, Sundaram
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
Materias:
Drug Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300369
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53097
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description Serenoa repens is one among the many naturally occurring 5 alpha reductase (5aR) inhibitors which has gained popularity as a magical remedy for androgenetic alopecia. It is widely advertised on the web and sold by direct marketing. Used as a self-medication, there is a risk of missing the early detection of prostate cancer. There is little evidence to support its efficacy, warranting larger clinical trials on androgenetic alopecia.
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spelling pubmed-28409152010-03-18 Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia? Murugusundram, Sundaram J Cutan Aesthet Surg Drug Review Serenoa repens is one among the many naturally occurring 5 alpha reductase (5aR) inhibitors which has gained popularity as a magical remedy for androgenetic alopecia. It is widely advertised on the web and sold by direct marketing. Used as a self-medication, there is a risk of missing the early detection of prostate cancer. There is little evidence to support its efficacy, warranting larger clinical trials on androgenetic alopecia. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840915/ /pubmed/20300369 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53097 Text en © Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title_full Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title_fullStr Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title_full_unstemmed Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title_short Serenoa Repens: Does It have Any Role in the Management of Androgenetic Alopecia?
title_sort serenoa repens: does it have any role in the management of androgenetic alopecia?
topic Drug Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300369
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53097
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