title: Macrophage-stimulating protein promotes hair growth ex vivo and induces anagen from telogen stage hair follicles in vivo.
abstract: Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a promoter of hair follicle growth. We examined another HGF family member, macrophage-stimulating protein (MSP), for its hair follicle-modulating properties. Western blotting revealed presence of mature MSP in cultured human dermal papilla (DP) cells and bulbar dermal sheath (DS) cells, but not non-bulbar DS cells. Immunohistology demonstrated expression of MSP receptor RON in the outer and inner root sheaths, hair matrix cells, DP, and bulbar DS whereas non-follicular epithelium and some cells of the sweat glands exhibited low-level receptor expression. Human hair follicles exposed in vitro for 8 d to 0.1, 1, 10, and 100 ng per mL MSP all yielded a mean net increase in hair follicle length in excess of the mean baseline growth observed in controls. MSP was incubated with agarose beads and injected subcutaneously into mice all 70 d old when a uniform telogen state in dorsal skin was apparent. All eight mice receiving 1 microg MSP, and four of eight receiving 100 ng MSP showed induction of anagen hair growth at the site of bead implantation by 16 d whereas eight mice implanted with saline incubated beads had no hair growth. The data identify MSP as a modulator of hair growth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Philipp University, Marburg, Germany. kevin@keratin.com
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: McElwee
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huth
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kissling
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development*; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008648:Mesoderm / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008863:Microspheres; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D012685:Sepharose
chemical_list: D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; C082332:macrophage stimulating protein; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor; D012685:Sepharose; C080835:RON protein; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases