What the late pop star Michael Jackson have in common with water buffalo? An incurable skin disorder called vitiligo. In the rare condition, sufferers lose pigmentation and skin becomes blotchy. the cause of Vitiligo is a mystery, although autoimmune disorders may play a role in some cases. Stymieing research was the lack of a good animal model. Now, scientists seem to have found one: the water buffalo. There are four, vitiligo researchers in New Delhi heard a strange tale of social workers. Villagers in a hamlet in western India were shunning the buffalo stomachs rosacea. They hoisted five of last year pariah animals (the one above), and found favor in skin biopsies that bleached buffalo skin spots were a "striking resemblance" to that of human patients with vitiligo. Just as in people, stains buffaloes had vanishingly few melanocytes pigment bearing cells and low levels of gene expression of pigmentation, reports the online team in the journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research . The New Delhi team wasted no time making use of the new animal model. In buffalo, stains have spread "confetti-like" tail of the animal to its rump and face in just 6 months; researchers are testing a new compound to see if they can stop the spread.
Animals with a rare skin disease can help people
Animals with a rare skin disease can help people -
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