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Assessment of growth hormone insulin like growth factor-I axis in Down’s syndrome
As GH therapy has been reported to increase growth velocity in children with Down’s syndrome (DS), we studied the GH-IGF-I axis in some DS patients affected by growth retardation without serious congenital mal...
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Expression of the human ETS-2 oncogene in normal fetal tissues and in the brain of a fetus with trisomy 21
The expression of the ETS-2 proto-oncogene, located on chromosome 21, in normal fetal tissues and in neural tissue of a fetus affected by Down syndrome has been investigated. The results show that the ETS-2 pr...
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ACUTE UNDIFFERENTIATED LEUKEMIA WITH EOSINOPHILIA IN A CHILD
A case of acute undifferentiated leukemia in an 8-year-old child is reported. The presenting feature of the disease was a marked peripheral eosinophilia (80%) with immature and somewhat atypical eosinophils. T...