Somatostatin regulates tight junction function and composition in human keratinocytes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common form of skin cancer with increasing incidence rates worldwide. METHODS:To assess the association of BCC with epidemiologic risk factors in a Southern European population from Greece, we conducted a hospital-based case-control study of 199 patients with BCC and 2...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Dessinioti C,Tzannis K,Sypsa V,Nikolaou V,Kypreou K,Antoniou C,Katsambas A,Stratigos AJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent success in melanoma therapy, most patients with metastatic disease still undergo deadly progression. We have identified a novel mechanism of multidrug resistance allowing a small subpopulation of slow-cycling melanoma cells to survive based on elevated oxidative bioenergy metabolism. In this study, we a...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Cierlitza M,Chauvistré H,Bogeski I,Zhang X,Hauschild A,Herlyn M,Schadendorf D,Vogt T,Roesch A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best characterized signalling pathway employed by transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) is the Smad pathway. We focused on Smad4, because it is essential for the activation of Smad-dependent target genes. We aimed to explore the possibility of inhibiting scar formation after wounding by blocking TGF-β signalling...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Tan WQ,Gao ZJ,Xu JH,Yao HP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is called into action by alarm signals generated from injured tissues. We examined the nature of these alarm signals after exposure of skin residential cells to contact allergens (nickel sulfate and potassium dichromate) and a contact irritant [sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)]. Nickel sulfate, potassium...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Spiekstra SW,Toebak MJ,Sampat-Sardjoepersad S,van Beek PJ,Boorsma DM,Stoof TJ,von Blomberg BM,Scheper RJ,Bruynzeel DP,Rustemeyer T,Gibbs S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultra-violet B (UVB)-induced oxidative stress crucially perturbs the epidermal homeostasis, and the skin is endowed with protective mechanisms to take action against such damage. Here, we show the possible involvement of t-SNARE protein syntaxin3, a membrane fusion mediator of cytoplasmic vesicles, and which is releas...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Miyazaki T,Kadono N,Konishi Y,Hagiwara N,Maekubo K,Hirai Y

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress with innovative, experimental gene therapy approaches in animals, and recent improvements in our understanding and manipulation of stem cells, gene expression and gene delivery systems, have raised plenty of hopes in essentially all branches of clinical medicine that hitherto untreatable or poorly mana...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Hengge UR,Taichman LB,Kaur P,Rogers G,Jensen TG,Goldsmith LA,Rees JL,Christiano AM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes constitute a group of lipid mediators, which may be subdivided into two groups, with leukotriene B4 on the one hand and cysteinyl leukotrienes on the other. Although leukotrienes are abundantly expressed in skin affected by diverse chronic inflammatory diseases, including atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, pem...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Sadik CD,Sezin T,Kim ND

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we determined the adiponectin expression in the serum and lesional skin of patients with scleroderma (SSc). Serum adiponectin concentrations were measured in 32 patients with SSc, 10 patients with SLE, 12 patients with dermatomyositis patients and 13 healthy subjects with specific enzyme-linked immunoso...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Arakawa H,Jinnin M,Muchemwa FC,Makino T,Kajihara I,Makino K,Honda N,Sakai K,Fukushima S,Ihn H

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocytes (KCs) play a critical role in maintaining the cutaneous structure and are involved in various physiological and pathologic processes of the skin. Many inflammatory skin diseases and skin cancers result from excessive proliferation and insufficient apoptosis of KCs. Recent data suggested that the sonic he...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Liu H,Jian Q,Xue K,Ma C,Xie F,Wang R,Liao W,Liu Y,Chi S,Li C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1970s, studies of tissue architecture and cell proliferation were used to formulate a new model of epidermal homeostasis. This asserted that the tissue was maintained by long-lived, slow-cycling, self-renewing stem cells that generate a short-lived population of transit amplifying (TA) cells, which undergo term...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Doupé DP,Jones PH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular nature of the hair cycle clock (HCC), the intrinsic oscillator system that drives hair follicle (HF) cycling, remains incompletely understood; therefore, all relevant key players need to be identified. Here, we present evidence that implicates myelin protein zero-like 3 (MPZL3), a multifunctional nuclear...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Nicu C,Wikramanayake TC,Paus R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) show a Janus-like functional behavior. They help us by their orchestration of numerous immune responses to defend our body against invading pathogenic micro-organisms and also induce regulatory T cells to inhibit immune reactions against autoantigens as well as diverse harmless environmental anti...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Schäkel K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin disease in which the balance in the interplay of immune cells and keratinocytes is disturbed. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small regulatory RNAs that stabilize cellular phenotypes and fine-tune signal transduction feedback loops through the regulation of gene networks. ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Pivarcsi A,Ståhle M,Sonkoly E

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate experimentally whether administration of recombinant (rh) vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) can protect skin flaps from necrosis and to study the optimum mode of rh-VEGF administration. We used rats to study the effects of local or systemic administration of rh-VEGF...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Scalise A,Tucci MG,Lucarini G,Giantomassi F,Orlando F,Pierangeli M,Pugnaloni A,Bertani A,Ricotti G,Biagini G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that telomerase activity is increased and telomere length shortened in lymphocytes from peripheral blood of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. In order to determine which cell type has increased telomerase activity and shortened telomere length, CD4+, CD8+, CLA+ CD3+ and CLA- CD3+ T...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Wu KD,Hansen ER

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin forms an effective barrier between the organism and the environment preventing invasion of pathogens and fending off chemical and physical assaults, as well as the unregulated loss of water and solutes. In this review we provide an overview of several components of the physical barrier, explaining how barrier...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Proksch E,Brandner JM,Jensen JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene amplification and protein overexpression are common in several cancers. EGFR status has seldom been studied in cutaneous squamous carcinomas (SCCs), or their precursors, actinic keratoses (AKs). We evaluated the presence of EGFR genomic aberrations and EGFR protein overexpr...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Toll A,Salgado R,Yébenes M,Martín-Ezquerra G,Gilaberte M,Baró T,Solé F,Alameda F,Espinet B,Pujol RM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of immune checkpoint receptors in the immunopathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases has been addressed in previous reports. In this study,  the expression profile of T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 (Tim-3) and programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) checkpoint molecules was investigated...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Rahimi A,Hossein-Nataj H,Hajheydari Z,Aryanian Z,Shayannia A,Ajami A,Asgarian-Omran H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disease that results in spot baldness in humans. Adequate animal models for AA are currently lacking. The objective of this study was to elucidate the mechanism of autoimmune-like alopecia (ALA) in C57BL/6.CD80CD86-deficient (B6.CD80CD86-/- ) mice. Incidence and severity of alopec...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Bae JH,Hwang WS,Jang YJ,Lee YH,Jang DE,Kim JS,Yeom SC

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients belonging to xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) complementation group C comprise one-third of all XP patients. Only four major reports compiled larger groups of XP-C patients from southern Europe (12 pts), North America (16 pts) and Africa (14 and 56 pts) as well as their genetic background (46 XPC mutations). We ide...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Schäfer A,Hofmann L,Gratchev A,Laspe P,Schubert S,Schürer A,Ohlenbusch A,Tzvetkov M,Hallermann C,Reichrath J,Schön MP,Emmert S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of angiogenesis in tumour growth and metastasis is well established. However, investigations of tumour microcirculation to date have used either biopsy material from human tumours, or animal models in vivo. We have studied the tumour microcirculation in vivo in human skin cancers using video-microscopy to exa...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Bedlow AJ,Stanton AW,Cliff S,Mortimer PS

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the photoprotection conferred by lycopene, one of the most potent anti-oxidants. Lycopene has been recently proposed to play a critical role on anticarcinogenic action at different levels. The photoprotective properties of lycopene remain contradictory. Some studies point out a positive and othe...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Ascenso A,Ribeiro H,Marques HC,Oliveira H,Santos C,Simões S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoid proteinosis (OMIM 247100), also known as Urbach-Wiethe disease or hyalinosis cutis et mucosae, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by generalized thickening and scarring of the skin and mucosae. In 2002, the disorder was mapped to a locus on chromosome 1q21 and pathogenic mutations were identif...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Chan I,Liu L,Hamada T,Sethuraman G,McGrath JA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease often associated with obesity. The anti-inflammatory adipokine vaspin, a suggested serine proteinase inhibitor of the serpin family, is discussed as a new link between inflammation and obesity. Here, we demonstrate that - different from healthy controls - vaspin serum levels i...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Saalbach A,Vester K,Rall K,Tremel J,Anderegg U,Beck-Sickinger AG,Blüher M,Simon JC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The miRNA expression profiles of skin biopsies from 14 primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (C-ALCL) patients were analysed with miRNA microarrays using the same control group of 12 benign inflammatory dermatoses (BID) as previously used to study the miRNA expression profile of tumor-stage mycosis fungoide...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Benner MF,Ballabio E,van Kester MS,Saunders NJ,Vermeer MH,Willemze R,Lawrie CH,Tensen CP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of a cutaneous immune response is critically dependent upon the ability of dendritic cells (DC) to migrate from skin to the draining lymph nodes - a process that is influenced by the cutaneous tissue microenvironment. Here, the role of fibroblasts - a major component of the dermal microenvironment - on the...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Saalbach A,Janik T,Busch M,Herbert D,Anderegg U,Simon JC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44 is a family of cell-surface receptors on human lymphocytes that act as co-stimulatory molecules leading to the induction of effector functions in T cells. We have analyzed primary cutaneous malignant melanomas with clinical and histologic signs of tumor regression using immunohistochemistry and observed the predo...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Weimann TK,Wagner C,Goos M,Wagner SN

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new technique that rapidly and reproducibly allows direct visualization of molecular interactions, including receptor-ligand binding. The technique can be easily applied to examine binding between proteins and glycoproteins, or proteins and glycolipids, including gangliosides. In this novel bead-bi...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Irvine AD,Sun P,Kos L,Wang XQ,Paller AS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of skin wound healing involves the following three steps: inflammation, tissue formation and tissue remodelling. These optimal steps are required for the development of normal wound healing. Recent reports demonstrated that inflammasomes are involved in the innate immune response. In the present study, we ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Ito H,Kanbe A,Sakai H,Seishima M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal mast cells protect the skin from inflammatory effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and are required for UV-induced immune suppression. We sought to determine a potential mechanistic role of mast cells in reducing the sensitivity to UV radiation (i.e. phototolerance induction) through photohardening. We adminis...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Schweintzger NA,Bambach I,Reginato E,Mayer G,Limón-Flores AY,Ullrich SE,Byrne SN,Wolf P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00