April 2026 in “International Journal of Drug Delivery Technology” This retrospective study at a tertiary care hospital observed that follicular tumors were the most common type of skin adnexal tumors (42.9%) among 42 analyzed cases, with malignancies making up 7.1% of the cases.
February 2024 in “Cureus” This study presented an elderly male with a nodular lesion diagnosed as pilomatricoma and discussed the value of diagnostic tools like dermoscopy and high-frequency ultrasonography, encouraging clinicians to consider pilomatricoma in differential diagnoses of nodular lesions across all ages.
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June 2015 in “Kidney International” This study developed a kidney-specific knockout mouse model lacking the Flcn gene, which recapitulates human Birt-Hogg-Dubé kidney tumorigenesis and shows that mTOR pathway inhibition with rapamycin can suppress tumor growth.
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July 1980 in “Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health” This study found that feeding norethindrone acetate to albino rats over two years caused various dose-related health effects, such as growth retardation and liver changes, but did not increase overall tumor incidence.
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September 2014 in “Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology” This study found that melatonin significantly improved metabolic and reproductive parameters in PCOS-induced rats, with effects similar to metformin.