A rare skin disease called vitiligo is turning his black coat white around his eyes, mouth, body and bottom.
“He’s just getting whiter and whiter,” says owner and Grey Lynn veterinary nurse Vanessa Townsend-Paley. “Even his nails that were once black are turning white.” The six-year-old is believed to be the first rottweiler with vitiligo in Australasia.

In a study appearing in the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have discovered a connection between a specific gene and the inflammatory skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases.Vitiligo is a chronic condition in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Similar patches also appear …

Scientists Implicate Gene in Vitiligo and Other Autoimmune Diseases
In a study appearing in the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have discovered a connection between a specific gene and the inflammatory skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases.

Vitiligo is a chronic condition in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different …

   
I’d like to take a moment to congratulate one of our writers, Fred Williams on his latest title: Romance Times Magazines, 2007 Mr. Romance! When you see his photo gracing the cover of some hot little romance novel, remember that you saw him first on sculptmagazine.com as he graced the cover of our first issue back in December 2006.
And I quote, from romantictimes.com
Then it was back to the ballroom for the the annual Mr. Romance Cover Model Pageant. The show was pure entertainment as the guys strutted their stuff …