The following is hypothetical, but still very important. Kind of fun to think of actually.
So scientists at Yale have apparently used preadipocytes isolated from a bald rat's adipose tissue to fully regrow their hair. They also have done this according to SEVERAL other patents that involve injecting isolated preadipocytes into the scalp of a balding patient that actually involve humans and the results are the same as the rats. Now my question is, if you were to use humans rather than mice/rats, how much adipose tissue do you think it would take to (or that they are using) to isolate the preadipocytes? In other words, I know it's the adipocytes you're after, but how much adipose tissue do you think it would take to give you those required adipocytes for hair regrowth. How much adipose tissue do you think would be required/sufficient to get a good number of cells for injection into a scalp for balding purposes?
That would depend on the number of cells you require. I work with adipose derived stem cells and 1 gram of tissue can get you between 50 000 to 200 00 cells.
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