About the Authors

Christopher Dunnill

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Khalidah Ibraheem

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Michael Peake

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Myria Ioannou

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Megan Palmer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Adrian Smith

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Andrew Collett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Nikolaos T. Georgopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

N.Georgopoulos@hud.ac.uk

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom, Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

AC and NTG are members of the scientific advisory board of Paxman, but do not receive any consultancy-related income. AC and NTG are co-inventors in patent application no. WO2017220998A1 (‘A composition for use in cooling therapy and treatment of chemically induced alopecia (CIA), said composition containing a reactive oxygen species (ROS) inhibitor’ - published Dec 2017), however the patent is not related to the present study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have no conflict of interest. Finally, the authors declare that Paxman were not involved in the design of the study; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; nor were the sponsors involved in the decision to submit the paper for publication.