Immunomodulatory effects of the α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-related tripeptide K(D)PT on human scalp hair follicles under proinflammatory conditions.

The article reports on the study done on the effects of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-related tripeptide K(D)PT on the hair follicles of human scalp under proinflammatory conditions. It mentions that the method is advantageous to these patients because it will mediate immune privilege (IP) and tolerance induction in the brain and eye. Moreover, it states that it also re-establishes major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-dependent IP in the human anagen of hair bulbs.