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Infection with Human Herpesvirus Type 8 and Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Sardinia
A cross-sectional study was conducted in the provinces of Sassari (northern Sardinia, covered by a population-based cancer registry), and of Cagliari (southern Sardinia) to estimate the prevalence of infection...
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HHV8 in renal transplant recipients
Human herpevirus 8 (HHV8) DNA sequences have been found in lesions from patients with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in several forms including immunosuppressed transplant patients. We wanted to study the transmission...
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Embryology of the Hair Follicle
The initial appearance and development of the hair follicle is strictly linked to the morphogenesis of the skin in the embryo. The skin is an organ composed of the epidermis and dermis. The origin of the two c...
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Chromosome abnormalities in tuberous sclerosis
In fibroblasts cultured from biopsies of the skin lesions of six patients with tuberous sclerosis (TS) there was a variable but consistent degree of karyotypic variation. Premature centromere disjunction (PCD)...
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Immunogenetic Modulation of Photoinduced Skin Tumors
It has long been known that prolonged U.V. irradiation of human skin has an important role in the development of skin carcinomas. In man over 90% of skin cancers develop on the face which constitutes less than...
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Chromosomal aberrations in lymphocyte and fibroblast cultures of patients with the sporadic type of Kaposi sarcoma
Numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations were found in metaphases from lymphocyte cultures from Sardinian patients with the sporadic type of Kaposi sarcoma, and also in fibroblasts derived from culture...
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A Population and Cytogenetic Study of the Werner Syndrome in Sardinia
Several patients with the Werner syndrome in a group of related families in Sardinia were reported briefly by Rabbiosi and Borroni (1979). We have recently re-investigated these families, ascertained two addit...
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Failure to demonstrate early and late antigens of cytomegalovirus in tissue cultures from Kaposi's sarcoma patients
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High prevalence of Werner's syndrome in Sardinia. Description of six patients and estimate of the gene frequency
Several patients with Werner's syndrome in a large family group in Sardinia were ascertained three years ago and reported briefly by Rabbiosi and Borroni (1979). Since then two sisters from a second family and...
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Clonal structural chromosomal rearrangements in primary fibroblast cultures and in lymphocytes of patients with Werner's syndrome
The cytogenetics of six cases of adult progeria (Werner's syndrome) from three Sardinian families were investigated. The overall increased incidence of chromosome breakage found in cultured lymphocytes and fib...
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Immunofluorescence of the tubulin system in human skin fibroblasts in Werner's syndrome, Kaposi sarcoma, and psoriasis
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Histochemistry of the intercellular substance of the normal and psoriatic human epidermis
The intercellular substance of skin samples obtained from normal subjects and from psoriatic patients has been studied with histochemical methods for carbohydrate containing substances and checked with enzymat...
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Histochemistry of the dermal ground substance of initial psoriatic lesions
30 cases of initial psoriasis were studied. Pinhead-sized lesions, recently appeared, were excised and studied with histochemical methods for acid mucopolysaccharides.
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Studies on the Pathomechanics of Chronic Actinic Dermatosis
The structural alteration in chronic actinic dermatosis consists of dermal as well of epidermal changes. In the dermis a double order of changes are evident:
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Histochemie der Haut, speziell der normalen und pathologischen Differenzierung der Epidermis
Es ist das Anliegen dieses Symposions, die Histochemie der normalen und pathologisch gestörten Differenzierung der Epidermis zu diskutieren. Eine der wichtigsten Funktionen der Epidermis ist ihre Schutzfunktio...
