Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cupp's unusual action ended the participation of some 200 convicts in various projects, some of which had been going on for 20 years. The research had included allergy experiments in which inmates got various substances injected under their skin to gauge their effect; the pay was $6 per visit to the doctor. More controversial was testing in connection with development of a male contraceptive pill. Volunteers received $10 a month for weekly sperm specimens, plus $25 for periodic biopsies of the scrotal skin. After a year, they were paid a $100 bonus, and underwent mandatory vasectomies because...
...former Minnesota researcher, meanwhile, has made a discovery that may well make tissue typing unnecessary. Dr. William Summerlin, now at S.K.I., has found that when skin is kept in tissue culture for several weeks, its antigens are somehow lost. As a result, the immune system of the patient can no longer recognize the donor's skin as foreign. The skin can then be grafted onto any patient without being rejected. Summerlin's work, which is still experimental, could eventually eliminate both the rejection problem and the need to match donor and recipient, enabling transplant surgeons to make wider...
Several doctors are now using BCG for cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Donald Morton of U.C.L.A. has used BCG to hype up the immune systems of patients suffering from malignant melanoma, a cancer that first appears on the skin and spreads rapidly to other parts of the body; some of his patients have been free of the disease for two years or more...
...Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo has used BCG to stimulate an immune reaction against malignant melanoma, mycosis fungoides and other cancers that originate on the skin, as well as against such deep-seated tumors as breast cancer. He has also experimented with vaccines made from tumors similar to those of the patient, injecting the substance into cancer victims in the hope of triggering not a general immune reaction but one that is specifically directed against the cancer. Of those patients who responded immunologically, most showed marked improvement...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...