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Health | Derivatives of vitamin A. Used clinically in the treatment of severe cystic acne, psoriasis, and other disorders of keratinization. Their possible use in the prophylaxis and treatment of cancer is being actively explored. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | This composite slide shows the Lobund-Wistar rat on the left, and on the right shows a dissection of the rat with urogenital (prostate and/or seminal vesicle) tumors. The Lobund-Wistar rat is an excellent animal model to develop prevention and treatment modalilities, such as retinoids, of urogenital cancers. Credit: Janet Stephens (photographer). |
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Health | This also appears to be true of a group of chemicals called retinoids. (references) | |
When fed to rodents with EAE, retinoids increase levels of TGF and IL-4, which encourage protective T cells, while decreasing numbers of harmful T cells. (references) | ||
Conflicting data exist demonstrating both prevention and potentiation effects of topical retinoids in the development of UVR-induced skin tumors in animals. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
retinoids | 19 |
retinoids topical | 3 |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RETINOIDS" (pronounced re"tunoydz) |
| 3 | -oy d z | ellipsoids, fibroids, steroids, tabloids. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: disorient. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: derision, diorites, disinter, editions, inditers, ironside, nitrides, resinoid, retinoid, sedition. | |
-2 letters: dineros, dinitro, diorite, dirties, ditsier, edition, editors, inditer, indites, indorse, inosite, insider, iodines, ionised, ironies, ironist, nitride, nitrids, noisier, norites, oestrin, ordines, orients, rodents, rosined, snorted, sordine, sordini, sortied, steroid, stonier, storied, tidiers, tinders, tineids, triodes. | |
-3 letters: dinero, diners, direst, donsie, dories. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: detritions, directions, discretion, disorients, eruditions, ironfisted, perditions, reeditions, renditions. | |
+2 letters: derivations, description, discretions, disoriented, disrelation, misoriented, modernistic, modernities, ordinariest, predictions, redigestion, rotundities, tyrocidines. | |
+3 letters: codirections, conditioners, denigrations, deprivations, derelictions, descriptions, desideration, dictionaries, dilatoriness, disorientate, disorienting, disrelations, disseminator, dissertation, diversionist, doctrinaires, dominatrices, dominatrixes, endocarditis, endometritis, eradications, extraditions, indirections, indiscretion, interdictors, interiorised, misdirection, orotundities, overstriding, periodontics, periodontist, predications, predigestion, profundities, rationalised, reconditions, redepositing, redigestions, redirections, reductionism, reductionist, remediations, reoxidations, repositioned, repudiations, reradiations, rodenticides, romanticised, tenebrionids, trepidations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 49 4E 4F 49 44 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . - .. -. --- .. -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01010100 01001001 01001110 01001111 01001001 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E T I N O I D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0054 0049 004E 004F 0049 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523954434849433853 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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