Vitiligo is a common acquired disease of pigment loss. Though various non-invasive treatments (including local immunosuppression, ultraviolet light irradiation, etc.), transplantation cultured autologous melanocytes as cell suspension an emerging choice. An epidermal graft about 1cm2 was obtained by suction blistering from the abdomen patient, then dissociated into single cells and in different...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is a chronic peripheral lymphoma in which aggressive combined therapy elicits high response rates but does not improve survival. Photopheresis therapy has reportedly induced remissions and prolonged survival in patients with advanced disease. OBJECTIVE We studied all patients who began photopheresis treatment between February 1988 and July 1994 to determin...

Devor, Daniel C., Robert J. Bridges, and Joseph M. Pilewski. Pharmacological modulation of ion transport across wild-type and DF508 CFTR-expressing human bronchial epithelia. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 279: C461–C479, 2000.—Forskolin, UTP, 1-ethyl-2-benzimidazolinone (1EBIO), NS004, 8-methoxypsoralen (Methoxsalen; 8-MOP), and genistein were evaluated for their effects on ion transport across pri...

306 eye care/cosmetic products should also be tested. Though phenylephrine is widely used by ophthalmologists in India in nonhypertensive adults as a mydriatic agent to obtain maximum pupillary dilatation prior to fundus examination and assessment of refractory errors, allergic contact dermatitis has not been reported from this country so far. This may be partly due to a low index of suspicion ...