Abundant evidence spanning 25 years demonstrates that hypopigmentation is associated with sensory abnormalities manifested most clearly as elevated absolute dark-adapted thresholds in hypopigmented mice. Here we show that when ocular melanin is increased in the himalayan mouse via alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) injections, dark-adapted thresholds drop in proportion to the chan...

Les carcinomes basocellulaires, fréquemment rencontrés dans la race blanche, sont plus rares chez les sujets de race noire. Les zones exposées de la tête sont des sites préférentiels, et une intense exposition aux rayons solaires ultraviolets a été évoquée dans leur étiopathogénie. Les métastases sont exceptionnelles. Les objectifs ont été de démontrer l'existence de carcinomes basocellulaires ...

Este estudo teve como finalidade avaliar macroscopicamente e histológicamente defeitos osteocondrais já cicatrizados, também conhecidos como reparos. Foram utilizados seis coelhos machos, adultos, albinos da raça Nova Zelândia. Defeitos cilíndricos osteocondrais de 3.2 mm de diâmetro por 4.0 mm de profundidade foram criados cirurgicamente em ambos côndilos femorais mediais. O cilindro osteocond...

The authors assessed relationships between visual acuity and the amplitude, frequency, intensity, and duration of foveation periods in a retrospective study of 32 patients. Twenty-four patients had congenital idiopathic nystagmus, and eight patients had nystagmus and albinism. Visual acuity was determined for Landolt ring optotypes and, as the extrapolated high-frequency cutoff of the contrast ...

Investigation of analgesic activity with oral administration of ethanol (CSE3) and aqueous (CES4) Cassia siamea extracts showed a dose-dependent profile similar with morphine in albinos Wistar rats. And ip injection of 1ml/kg of naloxone, a specific antagonist of morphine, 45 min after oral administration of extracts at the effective dose of 200 mg/kg completely reversed the analgesic effect. H...

The reversible inhibition of DNA repair is a novel approach to maximize genetic diversity within a plant's genome in order to generate offspring exhibiting important de novo output traits. This process is based on the inhibition of the evolutionarily conserved mismatch repair (MMR) system. In this process, a human dominant negative MMR gene allele is introduced into the germline of a target pla...