The early visual event-related 'N170 response' is sensitive to human body configuration and it is enhanced to nude versus clothed bodies. We tested whether the N170 response as well as later EPN and P3/LPP responses to nude bodies reflect the effect of increased arousal elicited by these stimuli, or top-down allocation of object-based attention to the nude bodies. Participants saw pictures of c...

The congenitally athymic nude mouse has been widely used to study the tumorigenicity of a variety of human and animal neoplasms (1-6). Yet, nude mice appear not to be totally immunodeficient; they do not have a higher incidence than normal mice of chemical carcinogenesis or spontaneous tumors and show infrequent metastases of tumors known to be metastatic in their original host (4, 7-10). Altho...

Title: EFFECT OF DIETARY SELENIUM STATUS ON T CELL IMMUNITY AND CANCER XENOGRAFT IN NUDE MICE Alexandra Holmstrom, Master of Science, 2010 Directed By: Assistant Professor Wen-Hsing Cheng, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Selenium (Se) is known to regulate carcinogenesis and immunity at nutritional and supranutritional levels. Because the immune system provides one of the main body defe...

As a socially, culturally and sexually constructed space, the nude beach has been the focus of academic research. Some studies have analysed the nude beach as a place where erotic relations and meanings among men are performed, constructed, negotiated and transformed. Th ese studies however have seldom acknowledged the multiple dimensions of sexualised practices and subjectivities taking place ...

Cellular hair growth therapy is an emerging approach to alopecia. Recently, Tsuboi et al. (J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020;83,109–116.) have observed hair-growth stimulation by dermal-sheath-cup cells in patients with androgenic Hair follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells, originate the bulge area and express nestin, been shown differentiate multiple cell types including keratinocytes, neuro...

Previously, we have shown that Copenhagen (Cop) rats are highly resistant, compared with susceptible F344 rats, to the growth of glutathione S-transferase 7-7 (GST 7-7) positive preneoplastic liver lesions following treatment with a modified resistant hepatocyte (RH) protocol. Donryu rats, a strain with a level of susceptibility similar to F344, have a reduced T-cell response compared with the ...

Although several genes affected by the nude mutation inactivating the transcription factor Whn have recently been identified, a comprehensive molecular analysis of the nude phenotype is still missing. Gene expression profiling of wildtype and nude mice back skin reveals several so far unknown differences in mRNA levels and demonstrates that microarray hybridization is ideal to identify even qua...