BACKGROUND Trichobezoar is an uncommon entity observed mostly in young women. Symptoms in presenting patients are usually due to the large mass of the bezoar or malabsorption of nutrients. Trichobezoar is almost always associated with trichotillomania and trichophagia. CASE REPORT Three teenage girls, aged 13, 15, and 16, were diagnosed due to palpable epigastric masses. Additionally the olde...

Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) produced by the nitrogen-fixer Trichodesmium sp. has the potential to serve as a nitrogen source for the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) from laboratory cultures of Trichodesmium sp. was isolated, concentrated and then supplied as a nutrient source to K. brevis cells collected from the Gulf of Mexico. K. brevis abundance in...

AIM To detect the expression pattern of tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome-1 (TRPS1) in human colon cancer and to analyze its correlation with prognosis of patients with this disease. METHODS The expressions of TRPS1 in human colon cancer and its corresponding noncancerous colon tissues were detected at both mRNA and protein levels. RESULTS The mRNA and protein expression levels of TRPS1 were...

BACKGROUND Woolly Hair is an uncommon congenital anomaly of the scalp hair presenting with strongly coiled hair involving a localized area of the scalp or covering the entire side and occurring in non-black people. Isolated or localized wooly hair is usually benign and is not related to other disorders and/or complications. On the contrary, the generalized type may be related to disorders and s...

Supernumerary teeth or hyperodontia is an infrequent developmental alteration that appears in any area of the dental arches and can affect any dental organ. Multiple hyperodontia can be associated with several syndromes such as Gardner's, cleidocranial dysplasia, tricho-rhino phalangic syndrome or in patients with cleft lip and palate. However, it can be present in patients without any systemic...

A proteomic analysis of proteins bound to the osteocalcin OSE2 sequence of the mouse osteocalcin promoter identified TRPS1 as a regulator of osteocalcin transcription. Mutations in the TRPS1 gene are responsible for human tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome, which is characterized by skeletal and craniofacial abnormalities. TRPS1 has been shown to bind regulatory promoter sequences containing GATA...

GATA transcription factors mediate cell differentiation in diverse tissues, and their dysfunction is associated with certain congenital human disorders. The six classical vertebrate GATA proteins, GATA-1 to GATA-6, are highly homologous, bear two tandem zinc fingers of the C(4) (GATA) type, and activate transcription. TRPS1, the only other vertebrate protein with the GATA motif, is a large, mul...

ADEROLU, Ademola Zaid, Eustace. A. IYAYI and Abiodun A. ONILUDE, 2007. Changes in nutritional value of rice husk during Trichoderma viride degradation. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 13: 583-589 Possible improvement in nutritional status of rice husk using Trichoderma viride a fungus was investigated over a period of 40 days. Proximate composition was significantly (P<0.05) improved with microbial treat...