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Screening for Acanthosis nigricans: Analyzing the Correlation between Socio-economics and Acanthosis nigricans
… with a skin pigmentation condition called acanthosis nigricans demonstrates that causal factors, such as ethnicity and obesity, can make children more at-risk for obtaining this condition which results from hyperinsulinemia. Currently, states, such as Texas, require school nurses to screen …
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Raman spectroscopy and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for diagnosis of human cancer and acanthosis nigricans
… spectroscopy and colorimetry on a skin disease, acanthosis nigricans in vivo. The aim is to quantify and characterize the skin color change associated with acanthosis nigricans skin disease in insulin-resistant obese individuals. We observe both the instruments can be utilized to detect …
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Food Intake and Physical Activity Assessment of Native American Children with Acanthosis Nigricans and their Friends
<p>Acanthosis nigricans is a hyperplastic skin lesion found to be highly prevalent among Native Americans. The age of onset of acanthosis nigricans closely parallels the onset of obesity among Winnebago/Omaha children. The combination of obesity with acanthosis nigricans is a key sign of high risk …
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Ideas for Diabetes Prevention in High Risk American Indian Children: A Parent Focus Group Approach
… All of the parents/guardians of children with acanthosis nigricans (AN) were invited to participate. Eight focus group participants, seven female and one male, were able to attend one of the three scheduled session.<br /> A transcript based, qualitative analysis approach was utilized to …
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Histopathologic and Immunohistochemical Characteristics of Becker's Nevus
… features of BN showed more frequent acanthosis, papillomatosis, keratotic plugging, irregular rete ridge elongation and flattening in the epidermis compared with lentigo and cafe au lait spots. Especially, the shape of rete ridges in BN had relatively characteristic appearance, which …
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Comparação dos aspectos histomorfométricos entre lesões de líquen plano oral e lesões liquenoides orais
… morphological parameters, such as keratosis, acanthosis, band of inflammatory infiltrate and eosinophilic band, degeneration of the basal layer and involvement of the epithelium-chorion interface and degree of subepithelial inflammatory infiltrate, and morphometric parameters, such as keratin …
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CARACTERISTICAS DEL SINDROME METABOLICO EN NIÑOS QUE CONSULTAN CON OBESIDAD
… of the records described either the presence of acanthosis nigricans in areas such as the knuckles, neck, armpits, or groin, the presence of adipose panniculus, or a combination of both.
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Role of protein kinase C isozymes in cellular senescence and reversal of senescence in response to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13 acetate (TPA) treatment in
… significant loss of PKCα expression along with acanthosis in epidermis and hair follicle, indicating that downregulation of PKCα was accompanied with epidermal proliferation. The above observations were further supported by the RNA-seq analyses in HDF old cells: TPA-mediated PKCα degradation …
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Generation and characterization of novel mouse models to validate the role of KLK5 protease in inflammation for pharmacological applications
… the stratum granulosum, no hyperkeratosis or acanthosis. Furthermore, the expression levels of Dsg1, Cdsn and Dsc1 and of involucrin, loricrin and keratin 5 were normalized. Epidermal proteolytic activities were attenuated in Spink5-/-Klk5-/-Tnfa-/- and no skin inflammation was induced as …