Stelara treatment for alopecia

I just saw my derm today for something other than my AU and of course our discussion lead into the alopecia realm. He discussed with me a new drug that is being used for the treatment if psoriasis called Stelara - has anyone heard of it and used it for AA, AT, or AU? I'm just beginning my research on it now and thought I would put it out there to all of you on Alopcecia World.

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Permalink Reply by Tony J. on July 17, 2010 at 3:41pm
Rebecca,

There has been a couple of post on Alopecia World regarding researches from Columbia who discovered 8 genes causing AA. What they suggested was that AA was more closely associated to rheumatoid arthritis and Type 1 diabetes than psoriasis. Most drugs used to treat psoriasis failed in patients with AA.

http://www.alopeciaworld.net/forum/topics/scientists-find-possible

http://www.alopeciaworld.net/forum/topics/new-gene-in-hair-loss

So the news is since so much work has been done in researching drugs for those auto immune diseases such as RA and Types 1 diabetes, this gives scientist a sort of fast track to investigate possible drug treatments for AA.

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