December 2025 in “Meditsinskiy sovet = Medical Council” This case study highlights the importance of an integrated diagnostic and treatment approach for children with rare genetic disorders, as demonstrated in a 10-year-old girl with CNOT3 syndrome, characterized by symptoms like mental retardation, gastrointestinal issues, and unique facial features.
October 2021 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” This study introduces the Hair Cell Analysis Toolbox (HCAT), a machine-learning software that automates the analysis of cochlear hair cells, enabling unbiased and comprehensive imaging data interpretation.
January 2022 in “Figshare” This study found that knocking down lncRNA MTC in Liaoning Cashmere goat skin fibroblasts reduced cell proliferation and altered protein expression, suggesting its role in hair growth and regulatory pathways.
In this study, conditional inactivation of the Mad2l1 SAC gene in mice led to aggressive and lethal acute lymphoblastic leukemia and hepatocellular carcinoma, demonstrating a link between chromosomal instability and cancer development.
January 2024 in “Genetics in Medicine Open” In this report, two adult patients with Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome exhibited new cardiac features, such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular and atrial dilatation, highlighting the importance of cardiovascular follow-up in adults with this condition.
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September 2015 in “Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases” This review discusses ichthyosis with confetti, highlighting its genetic basis, clinical features, diagnostic criteria, and current treatment options but reports no new clinical results.
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December 2017 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings” This review summarizes findings on the long-term use of tofacitinib for severe alopecia areata, reporting its potential as a promising treatment option.
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September 2022 in “Human genomics” This study identified a coexpression network and key genes associated with thyroid eye disease, potentially aiding in its treatment and diagnosis.
November 2020 in “Dubai medical journal” This case report described a 24-year-old with alopecia totalis who saw full scalp hair regrowth by the 9th month while using oral tofacitinib, which was well-tolerated and did not show serious adverse effects. Longer-term studies are needed to confirm its overall effectiveness for alopecia totalis.
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March 2022 in “The FASEB journal” This study observed that mice with a whole-body deficiency of Cystathionine-β-synthase developed severe hyperhomocysteinemia and related mild symptoms without increased mortality, indicating HHCy may not directly cause end organ damage.
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September 2023 in “Science” This study found that the restoration of CD103⁺γδ T cells in humans is associated with sustained remission in inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting a conserved role for these cells in limiting disease progression.
June 2023 in “British Journal of Dermatology” This study reports a unique case of coinheritance of BRCA2 and CYLD pathogenic variants in a man with metastatic malignant cylindroma, suggesting that recognizing such genetic profiles in rare conditions can provide new treatment options, including the potential use of therapies targeting BRCA deficiency.
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June 1998 in “Molecular cell” This study found that mimicking the XPD point mutation in mice resulted in trichothiodystrophy-like symptoms, supporting the role of basal transcription and DNA repair defects in the disease.
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January 2021 in “Inflammatory Bowel Diseases” In this report, a female patient with ulcerative colitis, alopecia areata, and pyoderma gangrenosum showed improvement in all three conditions after being treated with tofacitinib.
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May 2026 in “Nature Communications” This study demonstrated that CD19-CAR T cell therapy may promote structural regeneration in the skin of systemic sclerosis patients, as evidenced by histological improvements and fibroblast population changes, suggesting its potential for tissue remodeling in fibrotic diseases.
September 2016 in “Journal of dermatological science” This study identified TSC2 as an important regulator of hair follicle morphogenesis and patterning, with Tsc2cKO mice showing altered hair patterns and frequencies compared to controls.
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July 2010 in “Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology” This review discusses systemic antifungal treatments for tinea capitis in children, noting that newer agents like terbinafine and itraconazole require shorter courses than the traditional griseofulvin, but may be more costly.
This study found that IL18 signaling plays a crucial role in the homing and retention of mature regulatory T cells in the mouse thymus, primarily by upregulating the chemokine receptor CCR6.
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August 2019 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” Teledermatology reduces unnecessary in-person visits and improves care.
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December 2023 in “Aging” In liver cancer cells, this study found that upregulating hsa_circ_0002980 inhibits cell proliferation, metastasis, and EMT by modulating the miR-1303/CADM2 axis, suggesting it as a potential therapeutic target.
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January 2021 in “Translational Psychiatry” This study found that certain gene sets, including those involved in ligand-gated ion channel signaling and cell adhesion, are associated with Tourette syndrome, suggesting a potential neurobiological basis for the disorder.
In this study, researchers identified IL18R+ thymus-resident regulatory T cells in mice, demonstrating their unique molecular features and resistance to age- and stress-induced thymus involution, highlighting IL18 signaling's role in Treg migration and retention.
November 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” ATP-sensitive potassium channels are important for hair growth.
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April 2023 in “Life” This review discusses central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia in adolescents, noting varied presentation and highlighting genetic and environmental factors, but reports no new clinical findings.
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January 2000 in “Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy” This study found that trichothiodystrophy can be diagnosed prenatally in the second trimester using an endoscopically-guided fetal eyebrow biopsy, with sulfur content analysis being the most reliable test.
January 2006 in “Chieh P'ou Hsueh Pao” In this study, the researchers observed that transfecting hair follicle cells with an amino-terminal truncated beta-catenin gene significantly increased cell proliferation, potentially by enhancing c-myc gene expression.
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August 2022 in “Bulletin of Mathematical Biology” This study demonstrated that the Turing bifurcation, typically a pitchfork bifurcation under zero-flux conditions, becomes transcritical under fixed boundary conditions, highlighting the importance of considering boundary condition variations in morphogenetic analyses.
February 2026 in “Oncology Reviews” This review highlights the promising clinical outcomes of sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT), an antibody-drug conjugate for breast cancer that targets TROP2, demonstrating improved response rates and progression-free survival, with manageable safety concerns including primarily mild-to-moderate nausea and alopecia.
The researchers reported a case where treatment with tofacitinib improved both hair loss and skin lesions in a patient with Graham-Little-Piccardi-Lassueur Syndrome and hidradenitis suppurativa over six months, with no recurrence or adverse events during two-year follow-up.
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May 2004 in “Journal of Biological Chemistry” This study identified collagen XXII as a novel extracellular matrix protein specifically present at tissue junctions, where it functions as a cell adhesion ligand for skin epithelial cells and fibroblasts.