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A 35-year-old black man and his two daughters have massive keratoderma of the palms and soles and ainhum-like constrictions of the fifth toes in two of the three patients. Although there are various types of familial hyperkeratosis, our patients have dermatologic manifestations most consistent with Vohwinkel's keratoma hereditarium mutilans.
The carcinogenicity of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) with longwave ultraviolet light (UVA) to hairless mouse skin was investigated. Skin tumors were induced efficiently by 8-MOP + UVA, and the time to 50% tumor incidence was about 24 weeks. Histopathologically, some tumors were squamous cell carcinomas. AFB1 did not show any phototoxic and photocarcinogenic effects on mouse skin in this study. Although the structure and the photoreactivity of AFB1 to DNA were similar to those of 8-MOP, the photocarcinogenic response of these compounds to mouse skin was quite different.
The urinary levels of pseudouridine in 16 healthy subjects and 16 patients with psoriasis were evaluated with boronate affinity gel chromatography and reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The mean values of pseudouridine (nmol)/creatinine (mumol) for controls and patients were 21.34 and 18.48 for males, and 21.67 and 23.90 for females, respectively. No significant difference was observed between controls and patients.
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