Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Finasteride

Finasteride was approved initially in 1992 as Proscar, a treatment for prostate enlargement, but the sponsor had studied 1 mg of finasteride and demonstrated hair growth in male pattern hair loss. On December 22, 1997, the FDA approved finasteride to treat male pattern hair loss.

Therefore Finasteride (Propecia) was the first oral drug licensed for the treatment of Male Baldness.

Finasteride (propecia) drastically reduces the effect of the enzyme 5 alpha reductase (type II), and in doing so,reduces the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which it is responsible for in the hair cell. It is DHT that is one of the major culprits for hair loss in genetically determined hair cells.

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