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I spoke to Dr. Daniel Shrager, a cutaneous pharmacology fellow at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, who did a six-month study of the patches.
Other clinical applications of laser Doppler imaging to the measurement of cutaneous blood flow include the effects of postural changes in blood flow in venous leg ulcers [ 20], the assessment of digital perfusion following arterial repair [ 21], skin perfusion overlying benign and malignant breast disease [ 36] and the effect of prostaglandins on ischaemic ulcers [ 37].
Clinically, TYRP-1 is thought to be important as a melanoma antigen that is highly antigenic to cytotoxic T cells, providing a potential target for melanoma vaccine development [ 16 ] . TYRP-1 appears to be less expressed in advanced primary lesions and metastases of human cutaneous melanoma and uveal melanoma [ 32 ] . Primary melanoma samples express TYRP-1 transcripts at higher levels than melanoma metastases [ 33 ] , and IHC analysis of malignant melanocytic lesions has shown that the invasive cells of primary melanomas are TYRP-1-negative [ 34 ] .
Rereview of PB smears from these patients, who had typical cutaneous findings of MF, did not identify definitive Sezary cells.
As a control group for variations in T-cell markers in non-neoplastic T-cell populations, we used the flow cytometry results from 100 patients with MF or cutaneous atypical T-cell infiltrates whose PB smears did not show identifiable tumor cells, and 10 samples from control patients without any evidence of malignancy or chronic disease.
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