Patent ID: 7015209

Claim:
A method for stimulating hair growth in a mammal, which comprises the steps of: selecting a mammal in need of hair growth stimulation; and applying to the skin of said mammal one or more members selected from the group consisting of lysophosphatidic acids, and phosphatidic acids having a fatty acid residue moiety that consists of straight-chain fatty acid residues having an even number of carbon atoms, said number being in the rage of 2 to 24, where minoxidil is excluded wherein the phosphatidic acids are compounds represented by formula (III): wherein R 3 and R 4 independently represent straight-chain alkyl having an odd number of carbon atoms, straight-chain alkenyl having an odd number of carbon atoms, or straight-chain alkynyl having an odd number of carbon atoms, the odd number being in the range of 1 to 23.