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Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Dermatology, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease characterized by the loss of functional melanocytes in the hair follicles and epidermis, leading to white patches on the skin and mucous membranes. Alopecia areata (AA) is a common immune-mediated condition in which autoimmune attack on hair follicles cause non-scarring hair loss. Both diseases significantly impact patients's physical and mental health.
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January 2025
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania.
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease characterized by recurrent fever and systemic inflammation, most prevalent in Eastern Mediterranean populations. Rare in regions like Romania, FMF presents diagnostic challenges and risks severe complications if untreated. We report a 7-year-old Romanian girl, from a non-classical ethnic background, with recurrent febrile episodes and elevated inflammatory markers.
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January 2025
Department of Veterinary Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Room 4206 Vet Med 3A One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address:
In the field of equine muscle disorders, many conditions have a genetic basis. Therefore, genetic testing is an important part of the diagnostic evaluation. Validated genetic tests are currently available for 5 equine muscle disorders: hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, malignant hyperthermia, glycogen branching enzyme disease, type 1 polysaccharide storage myopathy, and myosin heavy chain myopathy.
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January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine IV, Division of Neurology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Faculty of Medicine.
In an 81-year-old man, brain diffusion-weighted MRI revealed punctate high-intensity lesions in the bilateral frontal cortex. Three months later, these lesions had extended into the cerebral cortices. Six months after the original MRI, the patient developed cognitive decline.
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January 2025
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Asthma, a widespread chronic inflammatory disease can contribute to different degrees of lung function damage. The objective of this study is to explore the potential effects of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors in asthma using mice model induced by ovalbumin (OVA). BALB/c mice were treated with OVA to establish an asthma model.
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