Modulating body/cranial hair growth

US6465421B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• L'Oreal S.A. · FR

Inventors

• Albert Duranton · Paris, FR
• Olivier De Lacharriere · Paris, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61K2800/782
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The growth of body and/or head/cranial hair on mammalian organisms, for example humans, is modulated by administering thereto, whether topically and/or systemically, therapeutically effective amounts of at least one lipoxygenase or cyclooxygenase inhibitor, or at least one lipoxygenase or cyclooxygenase stimulator, preferably in the presence of at least one lipoxygenase/cyclooxygenase substrate or precursor thereof; when a hair-growth or hair loss-limiting response is sought to be elicited, a lipoxygenase inhibitor and/or cyclooxygenase stimulator is administered (conversely, to reduce or prevent hair growth, a lipoxygenase stimulator and/or cyclooxygenase inhibitor is administered).