Prenatal diagnosis of oral cystic lesions is rare but is reported more frequently. The diagnosis of sublingual cyst is important because of the potential for airway obstruction. A rare case of a foregut duplication cyst associated with unilateral sclerocorneal microphthalmia is reported. The differential diagnosis and the limitations of the prenatal ultrasound and the postnatal MRI are discussed.

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence and phenotypic characteristics of small eyes in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk Eye Study. DESIGN Community cross-sectional study. SETTING East England population (Norwich, Norfolk and surrounding area). PARTICIPANTS 8033 participants aged 48-92 years old from the EPIC-Norfolk Eye Study, Norfolk, UK with axial length mea...

Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (Mitf) regulates the development and function of several cell lineages, including osteoclasts. In this report, we identified a novel mechanism by which RANKL regulates osteoclastogenesis via induction of Mitf isoform E (Mitf-E). Both Mitf-A and Mitf-E are abundantly present in osteoclasts. Unlike Mitf-A, which is ubiquitously expressed and is prese...

Williams MS, et al. CHARGE association: An update and review for the primary pediatrician. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1998;37:159-73. 6. Amiel J, Attiee-Bitach T, Marianowski R. Temporal bone anomaly proposed as a major criteria for diagnosis of CHARGE syndrome. Am J Med Genet 2001;99:124-7. 7. Al Frayh AR, Haque KN. Anophthalmia, microcephaly, hypotonia, hypogonadism, failure to thrive and developme...

The semidominant gene 'crooked' (Cd) in the mouse produces anomalies of the axial skeleton (resulting in a crooked tail), microphthalmia and dental abnormalities, including small molars with simplified cusp patterns that are equivalent to patterns passed through during normal morphodifferentiation. A series of embryonic litters from Cd/+ xCd/ + matings was used to investigate the embryological ...

BACKGROUND A higher incidence of lentigo maligna (LM) recurrences on the nose was previously observed in our cohort after non-surgical treatment. OBJECTIVES To determine histological parameters that might be related to the previously observed higher incidence of LM recurrences on the nose after non-surgical treatment. METHODS We randomly selected 22 surgical specimens of LM on the nose and ...

Nectins are Ca2+-independent immunoglobulin-like cell-cell-adhesion molecules consisting of four members. Nectins homophilically and heterophilically trans-interact to form a variety of cell-cell junctions, including cadherin-based adherens junctions in epithelial cells and fibroblasts in culture, synaptic junctions in neurons, and Sertoli cell-spermatid junctions in the testis, in cooperation ...

Diacylglycerol (DAG) increases the melanin content of human melanocytes in vitro and increases the pigmentation of guinea pig skin in vivo, but the mechanism(s) underlying those effects remain unknown. In this study, we characterized the role of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), which phosphorylates DAG to generate phosphatidic acid, in the regulation of pigmentation. Ten isoforms of DGK have been i...

This population-based descriptive epidemiology study demonstrates that rates of conjoined twins, teratomas, neural tube defects, microcephaly, and microphthalmia in the Rivne province of Ukraine are among the highest in Europe. The province is 200 km distant from the Chornobyl site and its northern half, a region known as Polissia, is significantly polluted by ionizing radiation. The rates of n...

Two congenic strains of RCS rats, RCS-p/+ and RCS-c, have been developed that differ from the parental strain at genetic loci affecting pigmentation. Inbred RCS rats are pink-eyed, while RCS-p/+ rats produce segregating litters of pink-eyed (p/p) and black-eyed (p/+) offspring, and RCS-c rats are albinos. All the strains are homozygous for the mutant form of the retinal dystrophy gene. The blac...