induces melanocytic hyperplasia in susceptible patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 33:577–583, 1995 Hachiya A, Kobayashi A, Ohuchi A, Takema Y, Imokawa G: The paracrine role of stem cell factor/c-kit signaling in the activation of human melanocytes in ultraviolet-B-induced pigmentation. J Invest Dermatol 116:578–586, 2001 Heissig B, Hattori K, Dias S, et al: Recruitment of stem and progenitor cells fr...

The involvement of the skin microflora in the formation of human underarm odour (UAO) is unequivocal. It has been clearly demonstrated that there is an association between the axillary skin population of aerobic coryneform bacteria and UAO intensity [ 11. Additionally, the sweat secreted by axillary apocrine glands only develops the characteristic UAO after degradation by skin coryneform bacter...

Soon after broad spectrum antibiotic drugs became available for therapy, reports appeared in the literature describing moniial infections of the anogenital area and oral mucosa. Cannon (1) reported on the considerable amount of attention being centered upon the problem of the rising frequency of monilial infections in relation to antibiotic therapy. Loh and Baker (2) studied the fecal flora of ...

ALTHOUGH the role of fungi as ocular pathogens has become more widely recognized (Maddren, 1941; Sykes, 1946; Mendelblatt, 1953; Mitsui and Hanabusa, 1955-; Roberts, 1957; Haggerty and Zimmerman, 1958; Mikami and Stemmermann, 1958; Fine and Zimmerman, 1959; Chick and Conant, 1962; Currie, 1963; Ainley and Smith, 1965; Jelenkiewicz, 1965; Dominiczak, Branicka, and Lewenstam, 1965), relatively li...

Vellus hair follicle Accessory auricle Trichofolliculoma Hair nevus Abstract We present a case of hair follicle nevus, a rare hamartoma composed of vellus hair follicles. Hair follicle nevus should be differentiated from accessory auricle, trichofolliculoma and hair nevus. Masahiro Tani, MD, Department of Dermatology, Kobe University School of Medicine, 5 Kusunoki-cho, 7 chome, Chuo-ku, Kobe 65...

Host Controlled Variation in Bacterial Viruses. G. BERTANI AND J. J. WEIGLE ........ 113 A Single Adaptive Enzyme in Saccharomyces Elicited by Several Related Substrates. NORBERTO J. PALLERONI AND CARL C. LINDEGREN .............................. 122 The Effect of X-Radiation on the Respiration of Escherichia coli. DANIEL BILLEN, G. E. STAPLETON AND ALEXANDER HOLLAENDER.............................

In this article I analyze one area that has for a long time interested anthropologists: the way in which dancing and dancing rituals—part of traditional life-ways—change and eventually disappear. I utilize here the terms “dance” and “dancing” principally to mean not only biologically or psychologically (emotionally?) motivated and combined corporeality and events in society but, together with F...

This study examined the experience of worry in the parent–adult child relationship. A mother, father, and adult son or daughter from 213 families participated (N 1⁄4 639). Parents and adult children commonly worried about one another and their worry reflected individual characteristics (e.g., neuroticism) and relationship characteristics (e.g., importance of the relationship and ambivalence). I...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/drm 1 The term ‘corneotherapy’ has been coined by Prof. A.M. Kligman [pers. commun.]. In this issue of Dermatology, Tagami and his group propose a practical method to evaluate the hydrating properties of various skin moisturizers used in adjuvant skin care. The authors’ objective was to develop a test based on a non-invasive biophysical approach tha...