The what, why and how of curly hair: a review.

ABSTRACT: An attempt to understand and explain a peculiarity that was observed for curly fibres during experimentation revealed disparate literature reporting on several key issues. The phenotypical nature of curly fibres is only accurately understood within the larger scope of hair fibres, which are highly complex biological structures. A brief literature search produced thousands of research items. Besides the large amount of information on the topic, there was also great variability in research focus. From our review, it appeared that the complexity of hair biology, combined with the variety of research subtopics, often results in uncertainty when relating different aspects of investigation. During the literature investigation, we systematically categorized elements of curly hair research into th

SUBMITTER: Cloete E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature