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Moss C. Physicians' roles: getting back to basics. CANADIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN MEDECIN DE FAMILLE CANADIEN 1993; 39:1725. [PMID: 8374356 PMCID: PMC2379792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Smith GB, Masters GL, Moss C. Organ donation from intensive care units. BMJ (CLINICAL RESEARCH ED.) 1992; 304:916. [PMID: 1392778 PMCID: PMC1882810 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.304.6831.916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A 7-year-old boy with a systematized verrucous epidermal naevus, multiple pigmented naevocytic naevi and precocious puberty is described. The possible basis for this previously unreported association of abnormalities is discussed.
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Chromosomal localization has been established for many genetic traits. Gene mapping may lead to the identification of disease genes, an understanding of pathogenesis, and the development of rational therapy, as well as facilitating antenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling. 'The new genetics' is therefore of great interest to the clinician. Unfortunately the complex technology and unfamiliar vocabulary of molecular biology often deter non-specialists from keeping abreast of these developments. This account explains the principles of gene mapping, discusses its relevance to dermatologists, and lists the established loci of dermatologically important genes.
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Moss C, Bacon CJ, Mueller RF. "Isolated" radial ray defect may be due to Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. Clin Genet 1990; 38:318-9. [PMID: 2268978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Elphick M, Moss C, Thorndyke M. The SALMFamide neuropeptides: In search of biological activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(90)90146-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Two siblings with poikiloderma, short stature and other abnormalities are described. They were originally reported as having Morquio syndrome; subsequently, mucopolysaccharidosis was excluded biochemically and they were classified as 'a newly recognized syndrome of connective tissue dysplasia'. It is now clear that their disorder is the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS).
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Moss C. "New" syndrome with telangiectasia, dwarfism, and spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia may be Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. Pediatr Dermatol 1990; 7:82-4. [PMID: 2343014 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1990.tb01084.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Paul PK, Dauber-Osguthorpe P, Campbell MM, Brown DW, Kinsman RG, Moss C, Osguthorpe DJ. Accessible conformations of melanin-concentrating hormone: a molecular dynamics approach. Biopolymers 1990; 29:623-37. [PMID: 2331518 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360290315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to search for the accessible conformations of the melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH). The studies have been performed on native MCH and two of its peptide fragments, a cyclic MCH(5-14) fragment and a linear MCH(5-14) fragment. An analysis of the molecular dynamics trajectories of the three peptides indicates that two regions of the peptide have characteristic conformational properties that may be important for the biological activity. One is a region around Gly8, which is conformationally mobile, and the other is around Pro13, which shows unusual rigidity. The molecular dynamics simulation results are discussed in terms of backbone structural features like beta turns, side-chain interactions, and orientations of the disulfide bridge. The results of this analysis are used to suggest new analogues that will modify the conformational features of the peptide and further define the conformational requirements for activity. Finally, the results are related to nmr studies of the peptide and reveal agreements between the experimental nuclear Overhauser effect constraints and some of the accessible conformations obtained from the simulation.
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Cox NH, Moss C, Hannon MF. Compound allergy to a skin marker for patch testing: a chromatographic analysis. Contact Dermatitis 1989; 21:12-5. [PMID: 2805655 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1989.tb04678.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We present details of a patient who was demonstrated to have contact allergy to a solution used to mark sites of application of patch tests, during investigation of allergy to gold and nickel. Negative results were obtained when patch testing was performed using the individual constituents of the marker solution (gentian violet, dihydroxyacetone and acetone). Chromatographic analysis of various combinations of these chemicals did not identify a chemical derivative which might have caused this reaction.
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Friedmann PS, White SI, Parker S, Moss C, Matthews JN. Antigenic stimulation during ultraviolet therapy in man does not result in immunological tolerance. Clin Exp Immunol 1989; 76:68-72. [PMID: 2736800 PMCID: PMC1541718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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People receiving therapy with either 8-methoxypsoralen plus long wavelength ultraviolet radiation (PUVA) or medium wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVB) have been studied to see whether their unresponsiveness to the contact sensitizer dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) is a form of immunological tolerance. It was confirmed that both PUVA and UVB therapy impair sensitization by DNCB:4/13 PUVA-treated and 9/29 UVB-treated psoriatic subjects became sensitized by a dose of DNCB which sensitizes 100% of untreated patients. Subjects unsuccessfully sensitized during PUVA therapy could subsequently be sensitized perfectly normally. Subjects unsuccessfully sensitized during UVB therapy showed slight impairment of subsequent sensitization which was not statistically significant, and which was probably a persistent effect of UVB exposure. In conclusion, the temporary unresponsiveness seen in human subjects exposed to antigens during PUVA or UVB therapy is not due to immunological tolerance.
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Perry J, Moss C. Generating alternatives in nursing: turning curriculum into a living process. AUST J ADV NURS 1988; 6:35-40. [PMID: 2980636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The transfer of nursing education into higher education institutions is challenging nurses to re-think educational structures and processes. Traditionally, nursing education has used objective curriculum models which tend to reinforce bureaucratic rather than professional values. Critics suggest that these models, by their failure to incorporate social, political and cultural realities, contribute to theory-practice dichotomies. This paper shares the intentions of Deakin University's School of Nursing in developing alternative approaches to curriculum design and to learning and practising nursing.
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A 27-year-old male with hypomelanosis of Ito (HI) is reported. One of his two children had a postaxial ray defect of one leg but neither had cutaneous features of HI. Somatic mosaicism for a gene defect lethal to ectodermal derivatives offers the best explanation for HI in males, with consequent negligible recurrence risk. The limb defect is considered coincidental. The excess of girls with HI could be due to a female cohort with incontinentia pigmenti (IP) which may be indistinguishable: counselling of females must therefore take account of possible X-linked inheritance.
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Moss C, Hamilton PJ. Thrombocytopenia in systemic lupus erythematosus responsive to dapsone. BMJ (CLINICAL RESEARCH ED.) 1988; 297:266. [PMID: 3416146 PMCID: PMC1833929 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.297.6643.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cox NH, Moss C, Forsyth A. Allergy to non-toxoid constituents of vaccines and implications for patch testing. Contact Dermatitis 1988; 18:143-6. [PMID: 3365966 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1988.tb04500.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We report 3 patients with persistent symptoms at vaccination sites. All were allergic to aluminium and one to thiomersal and neomycin too. Aluminium allergy causes false positive patch test reactions and we propose methods of patch testing patients with symptoms at vaccination sites in order to avoid this problem. The practical relevance of allergy to non-toxoid constituents of vaccines is discussed.
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White SI, Friedmann PS, Moss C, Simpson JM. Recovery of cutaneous immune responsiveness after PUVA therapy. Br J Dermatol 1988; 118:403-7. [PMID: 3355782 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb02435.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We studied sensitization to dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) in psoriatic patients before, during and 2, 4, and 6 weeks after a course of photochemotherapy (PUVA). The inhibition of sensitivity observed during PUVA was completely reversed after 6 weeks. Thus the PUVA-mediated inhibition of cutaneous immune responsiveness is of short duration. However, whether there are long-term sequelae remains to be established.
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Moss C, Taylor AE, Shuster S. Comparison of cadexomer iodine and dextranomer for chronic venous ulcers. Clin Exp Dermatol 1987; 12:413-8. [PMID: 2462473 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1987.tb01939.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Three women subsequently shown to have incontinentia pigmenti (IP) presented with white hairless streaks on the limbs as the predominant cutaneous abnormality. Seven other patients with IP diagnosed in infancy were reviewed to establish the frequency of this sign. It was found in all of them, and in the otherwise unaffected mother of three affected girls. A focal absence of sweating in these lesions is reported here for the first time. There are other similarities with anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, suggesting a genetic overlap between these two X-linked conditions.
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White SI, Friedmann PS, Moss C, Simpson JM. The effect of altering area of application and dose per unit area on sensitization by DNCB. Br J Dermatol 1986; 115:663-8. [PMID: 3801307 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1986.tb06646.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We have investigated the contributions of dose per unit area and area of application to the degree of sensitivity induced by dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB). Subjects sensitized with 35.4 micrograms/cm2 showed equal sensitization whether the total dose was 250 micrograms applied to 7.1 cm2 or 62.5 micrograms applied to 1.8 cm2. Three groups of subjects were sensitized with 16.4 micrograms/cm2 applied as 56 micrograms on 3.5 cm2, 116 micrograms on 7.1 cm2 or 232 micrograms on 14.2 cm2. Although the total dose changed by a factor of four, the proportions of subjects sensitized were comparable (66, 50 and 55% respectively), and their degrees of reactivity were similar. This contrasts with previous findings that when the area of sensitization was fixed and the concentration was increased over a similar range, highly significant increases in the proportion of sensitized subjects and degree of reactivity occurred.
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Moss C, Friedmann PS, Shuster S, Simpson JM. Susceptibility and amplification of sensitivity in contact dermatitis. Clin Exp Immunol 1985; 61:232-41. [PMID: 4042423 PMCID: PMC1577302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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We have examined the hypothesis that people who develop contact allergies to environmental substances do so because they have heightened susceptibility. Analysis of data from 2200 consecutive patients tested with the 20 commonest antigens in a patch-test clinic showed that more people developed multiple contact allergies than would be predicted from the frequency of single allergies; the excess was too great to be explained by chance and increased with number and rarity of the combinations of sensitizers. The possibility that this was due to enhanced individual susceptibility to sensitization rather than concomitant exposure to several sensitizers was confirmed by showing that patients with multiple allergies are more readily sensitized experimentally, and to a greater degree than normal, by dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB), an unrelated antigen. The defect involves induction rather than expression of sensitivity. Amplification of the response to DNCB is proportional to susceptibility (calculated from the ratio of observed prevalence of multiple allergies to that predicted from the prevalence of single allergies) throughout the range from normal subjects, through those with a single sensitivity, to those with rare, multiple allergies. Therefore, we conclude that individual susceptibility is an important factor in the development of contact dermatitis, and occurs by a non-antigen-specific amplification of immune sensitization.
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