Microbial DNA fingerprinting of human fingerprints: dynamic colonization of fingertip microflora challenges human host inferences for forensic purposes [PDF]
Human fingertip microflora is transferred to touched objects and may provide forensically relevant information on individual hosts, such as on geographic origins, if endogenous microbial skin species/strains would be retrievable from physical ...
Tims, S. +4 more
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Inflammatory Skin Diseases: Focus on the Role of Suppressors of Cytokine Signaling (SOCS) Proteins
Inflammatory skin diseases include a series of disorders characterized by a strong activation of the innate and adaptive immune system in which proinflammatory cytokines play a fundamental role in supporting inflammation.
A. Cianciulli +4 more
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Trace element zinc and skin disorders
Zinc is a necessary trace element and an important constituent of proteins and other biological molecules. It has many biological functions, including antioxidant, skin and mucous membrane integrity maintenance, and the promotion of various enzymatic and
Pan Zou +3 more
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Genotype-phenotype correlation study in 364 osteogenesis imperfecta Italian patients [PDF]
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare genetic disorder of the connective tissue and 90% of cases are due to dominant mutations in COL1A1 and COL1A2 genes.
Boarini, Manila +11 more
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Autophosphorylation at serine 166 regulates RIP kinase 1-mediated cell death and inflammation [PDF]
Receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) regulates cell death and inflammatory responses downstream of TNFR1 and other receptors, and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and degenerative diseases.
Bertrand, Mathieu +11 more
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DHCR7 mutations linked to higher vitamin D status allowed early human migration to Northern latitudes [PDF]
PMCID: PMC3708787This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
Griffiths, CJ +4 more
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Microbiota and chronic inflammatory arthritis. an interwoven link [PDF]
Background: Only recently, the scientific community gained insights on the importance of the intestinal resident flora for the host's health and disease.
D'Amelio, Raffaele +3 more
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JNK signalling in cancer: In need of new, smarter therapeutic targets [PDF]
Copyright © 2013 The British Pharmacological Society. This is the accepted version of the following article: Bubici, C. and Papa, S. (2014), JNK signalling in cancer: in need of new, smarter therapeutic targets.
Adams +137 more
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Netherton syndrome (NS) is a rare skin disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in the serine peptidase inhibitor Kazal type 5 (SPINK5) gene. Disease severity and the lack of efficacious treatments call for a better understanding of NS mechanisms ...
Evgeniya Petrova +10 more
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Phenotype of piebaldism resulted from heterozygous large fragment KIT deletion in one family [PDF]
Objective To identify the pathogenic mutations in a family with piebaldism. Methods Clinical information and peripheral blood were collected from the patient with piebaldism and their parents.
ZHANG Rui, TAN Yan, MA Donglai, WANG Rongrong, ZHANG Xue
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