Millennium Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass ., has found that if a particular gene in a melanoma skin tumor is inactive, the tumor is more likely to spread throughout the body.
32.
Reciprocal translocations between chromosomes 22 and 17, at sites where this gene and that for COL1A1 are located, are associated with a particular type of skin tumor called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans resulting from unregulated expression of growth factor.
33.
The purplish skin tumors of Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common form of cancer among people with AIDS, often yielded to injections of a hormone produced in pregnancy, according to preliminary findings from a small study.
34.
He and his colleagues asked expert pathologists to submit what they considered classic slides of skin tumors that were either malignant or not, examples that these specialists thought were so clear that they could be used in a textbook.
35.
Cherbuliez, who guides people interested in bee sting therapy, says he has seen improvements in people afflicted with arthritis, multiple sclerosis, depression, chronic fatigue, shingles, skin tumors, premenstrual syndrome and other problems.
36.
She recently developed an animal model to study arsenic-induced skin cancer and to demonstrate that in utero exposure to trace levels of arsenic in drinking water leads to skin tumor formation when the animals mature to young adults.
37.
Treatment with a hormone produced in the bodies of pregnant women can eradicate skin tumors caused by Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common tumor that afflicts AIDS patients, says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
38.
In rabbits of the genus " Sylvilagus " ( cottontail rabbits ) living in the Americas, myxomatosis causes only localized skin tumors, but the European rabbit ( " Oryctolagus cuniculus " ) is more severely affected.
39.
However, multiple " in vivo " studies conducted in hairless mice following topical application of padimate O have demonstrated no carcinogenic effects and that padimate O reduces the number of and delays the appearance of UV-induced skin tumors.
40.
The study, led by Dr . Sam Gibbs of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, looked at the results of 50 experiments using a variety of treatments for warts _ small, benign skin tumors caused by a viral infection.
