Abstract:
:Psoriatic skin lesions contain HLA-DR positive T lymphocytes, and other activation antigens, which suggest that the T cells may be producing lymphokines. Gamma interferon is produced by activated T cells, and its presence in psoriasis has been inferred by the lesional keratinocyte expression of 3 gamma interferon-inducible proteins i.e. HLA-DR, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, and gamma-IP-10. To determine whether gamma interferon is being produced directly in psoriatic lesions, punch biopsies of normal and diseased skin were separated into epidermal sheets and dermal fragments. Total cellular RNA was isolated from each epidermal and dermal compartment, and reverse transcribed followed by amplification of the resultant DNA by polymerase chain reaction. The amplification process involved the use of 5' and 3' primers for gamma interferon, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, with beta-actin serving as a control. Gamma interferon mRNA, but not tumor necrosis factor alpha mRNA, was detectable in 4 of 5 psoriatic epidermal specimens. Neither mRNA was detectable in any normal skin dermal/epidermal specimens. Gamma interferon mRNA was also detectable in a single psoriatic dermal specimen. If reverse transcriptase was omitted, no polymerase chain reaction products were detected, indicating that the fragments detected were not derived from contaminating genomic DNA. These results indicate that gamma interferon mRNA can be extracted and successfully detected from human psoriatic lesional skin biopsies, using polymerase chain reaction technology. This molecular approach can easily be expanded to measure many other cytokines in both epidermal and dermal locations. The detection of gamma interferon in this clinical setting may be of particular pathophysiological significance because injection of gamma interferon has been reported to induce psoriatic lesions.
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J Dermatol Scijournal_title
Journal of dermatological scienceauthors
Barker JN,Karabin GD,Stoof TJ,Sarma VJ,Dixit VM,Nickoloff BJdoi
10.1016/0923-1811(91)90019-tsubject
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1991-03-01 00:00:00pages
106-11issue
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0923-1811issn
1873-569Xpii
0923-1811(91)90019-Tjournal_volume
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