Cryosurgery is a common therapeutic modality used in dermatology; therefore we must be aware of its possible adverse effects. We report a case of a patient with subcutaneous emphysema which occurred following the application of cryotherapy after multiple punctures of local anesthetic and intralesional steroids in a chest keloid scar. Despite the fact that this condition was gradually resolved a...

Stichopin, a 17-amino acid peptide isolated from a sea cucumber, affects the stiffness change of the body-wall catch connective tissues and the contraction of the body-wall muscles. The localization of stichopin in sea cucumbers was studied by indirect immunohistochemistry using antiserum against stichopin. Double staining was performed with both stichopin antiserum and 1E11, the monoclonal ant...

Formation of a normal fibrous repair tissue requires ascorbic acid, for in the absence of this vitamin a tissue proliferates lacking the fibrillar elements which contribute to tensile strength (1). Chemical analyses have shown that the massive repair tissue induced by the subcutaneous injection of a foreign body, the galactan carrageenan, contained very little collagen when the animals received...

osteogenesis imperfecta (oi) as an inherited connective tissue disorder can affect all tissues that contains type i collagen. well-known cardiac complications of this disease such as aortic root dilatation, aortic regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse have been rarely reported in the literature. coronary artery aneurysm is a rare cardiac complication in oi, as reported in a 19 year old female...

Subcutaneous emphysema complicating asthma is a somewhat rare condition and when first met with rather an alarming one. Subcutaneous emphysema as a secondary manifestation of trauma of the chest wall, fracture of the orbit with escape of air from the nasal sinuses to the neck and thorax, or on occasion complicating tracheotomy or thoracentesis, is probably more common, and the mechanism whereby...

We have demonstrated that among carcass adipose tissue depots, brisket subcutaneous adipose tissue contains the greatest concentration of MUFA and lowest concentration of SFA. Therefore, we hypothesized that brisket subcutaneous adipose tissue depots would exhibit greater adipogenic gene expression over time than other major subcutaneous adipose tissue depots. Four Angus steers, each at 9, 12, ...

Carcinogenesis is a vast and heterogeneous, multi-step process driven by genetic epigenetic operators leading to superimposed “tumor organs”. Based on our previous experiences of reproducing human donor’s histopathological hallmarks in healthy animals exposed pathologic tissues homogenates, we examined the consequences administering crude homogenates elaborated from invasive tumors nude mice. S...