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• GNA14

  13 June

  See also
  G proteins

• Bartholin gland cyst

  3 June

  Bartholin’s gland cyst; Bartholin’s cyst WKP
  Definition : A Bartholin’s cyst occurs when Bartholin’s gland, within the labia, becomes blocked. Small cysts may result in few symptoms.
  Large cysts may result in swelling of one side of the vagina, and pain with sex or walking.
  If the cyst becomes infected an abscess occurs. These are typically red and very painful.
  Images
  https://twitter.com/UMichPath/status/1065032196065583104 (...)

• hair matrix

  31 May

  WKP
  The hair matrix, or simply matrix, produces the actual hair shaft as well as the inner and outer root sheaths of hair.
  See also
  matrical cells
  matrical differentition
  matrical tumors

• matrical differentiation

  31 May

  Examples
  matrical differentiation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28368926
  See also
  matrical cells
  hair matrix

• matrical cells

  31 May

  See also
  matrical differentiation

• dermal papillae with xanthomatous histiocytes

  15 May

  dermal papillae with xanthomatous histiocytes
  Examples
  verruciform xanthoma : dermal papillae with xanthomatous histiocytes https://twitter.com/Rami_AlRohil/status/1128124213284487175

• dermal papilla

  15 May

  dermal papillae
  Anomalies
  infiltration / infiltrate histiocytic infiltration dermal papillae with xanthomatous histiocytes

• verrucous anomalies

  15 May

  verrucous lesions; verruciform anomalies
  Examples
  verrucous carcinoma
  verruciform xanthoma / skin

• collagen necrobiosis

  13 May

  See also
  collagen and COLs genes
  necrobiosis granuloma annulare hygroma / bursitis

• collagen

  13 May

  Definition : Collagen is the most common protein in the animal world, providing the extracellular framework for all multicellular organisms.
  The collagens are composed of a triple helix of three polypeptide α chains, having a gly-x-y repeating sequence. Currently 27 different types of collagens encoded by 41 genes ( COLs ) dispersed on at least 14 chromosomes are known.
  Pathology
  anomalies of collagen / abnormal collagen mutations of COLs genes osteogenesis imperfecta
  collagen (...)

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