Abstract: Use of a physiologically acceptable vanadium compound, salt or complex as active component in the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the prophylactic treatment of secondary injury of tissue, said secondary injury being induced by primary injury of mainly surrounding tissue, in particular surrounding tissue, and being the result of a traumatic event.

Abstract: Use of a physiologically acceptable vanadium compound, salt or complex as active component in the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the prophylactic treatment of secondary injury of tissue, said secondary injury being induced by primary injury of mainly surrounding tissue, in particular surrounding tissue, and being the result of a traumatic event.

Abstract: Method of reproduction of hair, which method comprises the following steps: (1) removal of hair in the anagen phase from one or more donor regions in such a way that the bulb characteristic of hair in the anagen phase is still attached to the hair removed, (2) culture of hair follicle cells from the hair removed, under conditions such that the hair follicle cells are able to multiply, and (3) implantation of the cultured hair follicle cells in the receptor regions. Medium which comprises at least one suitable serum-free keratinocyte culture medium and extracts of at least one human mast cell line and method for culturing hair follicle cells from hairs in the anagen phase, wherein one or more hairs in the anagen phase are placed in said medium.