REFERENCES 1 Rosen SH, Castleman B, Liebow AA. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. N Engl J Med 1958; 258: 123–1143. 2 Kitamura T, Tanaka N, Watanabe J, et al. Idiopathic pulmonary alveolar proteinosis as an autoimmune disease with neutralizing antibody against granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor. J Exp Med 1999; 190: 875–880. 3 Kitamura T, Uchida K, Tanaka N, et al. Serological diagno...

Lipoid pneumonia is a rare disease. Herein we report an extremely case of lipoid associated with pulmonary tumorlet, located in the right lung which occurred 80-year-old man without any other organ involvement. The patient benefited from surgery and at subsequent follow-up he had no consequences surgery.

In the last few years considerable evidence has accumulated to show that the lipoid compounds of phosphoric acid of the type of lecithin are probably of great importance in the metabolism of the fats. For example a marked increase has been observed in lecithin in the blood and particularly in the corpuscles during fat absorption (1). In those pathological conditions where the blood lipoids are ...

Motivation: RNA sequencing enables allele-specific expression (ASE) studies that complement standard genotype expression studies for common variants and, importantly, also allow measuring the regulatory impact of rare variants. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project is collecting RNA-seq data on multiple tissues of a same set of individuals and novel methods are required for the analysis...

Patients suffering from Urbach-Wiethe syndrome (UWS), also known as lipoid proteinosis or hyalinosis cutis et mucosae, may have an ophthalmologist involved in the diagnosis and management of their disease. Along with moniliform blepharosis as a pathognomonic feature of the disease, an ophthalmologist may encounter other manifestations of UWS in any part of the eye such as cornea; conjunctiva; s...

In the last few years considerable evidence has accumulated to show that the lipoid compounds of phosphoric acid of the type of lecithin are probably of great importance in the metabolism of the fats. For example a marked increase has been observed in lecithin in the blood and particularly in the corpuscles during fat absorption (1). In those pathological conditions where the blood lipoids are ...

Lipoid pneumonia in children is a rare disorder due to accumulation of fatty oily material in the alveoli and usually associated with an underlying condition. In absence of obvious context, diagnosis remains difficult with nonspecific clinical and radiological features. We report the first case of voluntary chronic aspiration of olive oil responsible for exogenous lipoid pneumonia, in a previou...

1 Rosen SH, Castleman B, Liebow AA. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. N Engl J Med 1958; 258: 1123–1142. 2 Kitamura T, Tanaka N, Watanabe J, et al. Idiopathic pulmonary alveolar proteinosis as an autoimmune disease with neutralizing antibody against granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor. J Exp Med 1999; 190: 875–880. 3 Seymour JF, Presneill JJ. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: progress ...

The interactions between the nephrogenic mesenchyme and the ureteric bud during kidney development are well documented. While recent studies have shed some light on the importance of the stroma during renal development, many of the signals generated in the stroma, the genetic pathways and interaction networks involving the stroma are yet to be identified. Our previous studies demonstrate that r...

The extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1) is an 85 kDa glycoprotein first identified in 1994. The threedimensional structure of ECM1 based on the third serum albumin domain was determined by in silico modelling in order to predict the most important binding site(s) of ECM1 with other protein partners in human skin. ECM1 consists of four domains: a first domain existing of -helices ( D1), the se...