(n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of that work Joseph Goldberger developed a diet which produced a condition analogous to pellagra in dogs.
(2) Pellagra diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical clinical skin picture, and low urinary excretion of N'methylnicotinamide and N'methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide (reduced by 70 and 80%, respectively, compared with controls).
(3) These results suggest that Zn interacts with niacin metabolism in alcoholic patients with pellagra through a probable mediation by vitamin B-6.
(4) D-xylose absorption tests and jejunal morphology have been shown to be unaltered in 12 African patients with pellagra when compared with normal values for Zambian Africa adults; that result is contrary to two previous investigations in India and Egypt respectively.
(5) 231 cases of pellagra among 8,000 consulting patients has been observed from May 1977 to June 1978 in the Dermatological Dispensary of the Hospital G.E.C.A.-Mines of Lumbumbashi (Zaire).
(6) Two types of pathologic state are unquestionably the concern of vitaminotherapy: More or less specific and intense vitamin deficiencies: Rickets, scurvy, beri beri, pellagra, vitamin deficiency related to alcohol consumption, polyneuritis, encephalopathy, malabsorption, mucoviscidosis, etc.
(7) Pellagra is a classical disease rarely seen in this country.
(8) Pellagra in the human is characterized by the clinical "three D's," namely, dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia.
(9) Dermatoses with photosensitivity are divided into three groups: photo-aggravated dermatoses (solar herpes, lupus erythematosus), photosensitivity caused by protective system defect (xeroderma pigmentosum), and photosensitivity caused by metabolic defects (porphyrias, pellagra).
(10) His CNS lesions were composed of disseminated necrotic foci in the cerebral cortices with many Alzheimer type II astrocytes, pachymeningitis hemorrhagica interna, and lesions similar to pellagra and Wernicke encephalopathy.
(11) The nicotinamide nucleotide concentrations in the erythrocytes of subjects suffering from pellagra (pellagrins) were not lower than those in normal subjects, but the ability of erythrocytes to synthesize these nucleotides in vitro was significantly lower in pellagrins.
(12) In pellagra, symmetric keratotic areas on the face are always accompanied by lesions elsewhere on the body.
(13) It is concluded that pellagra per se does not alter intestinal structure or monosaccharide absorption.
(14) It is noted that some of the manifestations of prolonged sleep deprivation are similar to changes seen in pellagra.
(15) We evaluated the effects of SMS 201-995 in 14 such patients, 12 with diarrhea, 8 with flushing, 3 with wheezing, one with tricuspid valve incompetence, 6 with facial telangiectasia, 3 with a pellagra type dermatosis and one with myopathy.
(16) Tryp deficiency caused classical manifestations of pellagra although niacin intake was in excess of normal requirements.
(17) The first symptom of the disease was a serious and prolonged pellagra-like photodermatitis.
(18) Photosensitivity has also been associated with pellagra.
(19) The condition manifests as a pellagra-like skin rash within 8 weeks after birth, with signs of cerebellar ataxia and developmental retardation.
(20) A patient who was treated with isoniazid and who developed pellagra is presented.