Accelerated differentiation of melanocyte stem cells contributes to the formation of hyperpigmented maculae.

abstract：:It has been suggested that the increased rate of bacterial infection in atopic dermatitis (AD) may be caused by reduced antimicrobial protein (AMP) expression. We were interested whether common treatments in AD affect antimicrobial defense. We investigated the effects of topically applied corticosteroids betamethasone...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Jensen JM,Ahrens K,Meingassner J,Scherer A,Bräutigam M,Stütz A,Schwarz T,Fölster-Holst R,Harder J,Gläser R,Proksch E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we analysed the modulation of keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) mRNA expression in human dermal fibroblasts cultured either in monolayer or within a collagen matrix (dermal equivalent). In monolayer cultures, KGF expression by quiescent fibroblasts was stimulated by different growth substances such as se...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Le Panse R,Bouchard B,Lebreton C,Coulomb B

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that lymph node cells generated chemotactic factors for Langerhans cells (LCs) in the induction phase of contact dermatitis. In order to clarify the chemotactic factors involved in migration to the regional lymph nodes, we investigated the migratory activity of murine LCs toward several cyt...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Yamazaki S,Yokozeki H,Satoh T,Katayama I,Nishioka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a systemic heritable connective tissue disorder, is characterized by progressive calcification of elastic structures in the skin, the eyes and the cardiovascular system, with considerable intra- and interfamilial phenotypic variability. Recently, underlying genetic defects have been ide...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Ringpfeil F,Pulkkinen L,Uitto J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistance in melanoma is commonly attributed to ineffective apoptotic pathways. Targeting apoptosis regulators is thus considered a promising approach to sensitizing melanoma to therapy. In the previous issue of Experimental Dermatology, Plötz and Eberle discuss the role that apoptosis plays in melanoma progress...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Haass NK,Schumacher U

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune bullous disease caused by immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies against desmoglein 3 (Dsg3). We have generated an active disease mouse model for PV by adoptive transfer of Dsg3(-/-) lymphocytes. In this study, we investigated the benefits and limitations of this model as a tool...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Takae Y,Nishikawa T,Amagai M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, the function of the sebaceous gland (SG) was underestimated and suggested by Albert M. Kligman as a remnant of human development, a 'living fossil with a past but no future'. However, the last two decades of studies and the discovery of neuro-endocrine pathways in skin have determined the importance of...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Nejati R,Skobowiat C,Slominski AT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itch is often regarded as unpleasant or bothersome and is accompanied by symptoms of distress and impairments in daily life. The biopsychosocial model of chronic itch describes how psychological factors can contribute to the improvement or exacerbation of chronic itch and related scratching behaviour. Recent research ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Evers AWM,Peerdeman KJ,van Laarhoven AIM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun, a component of the activating protein-1 transcription factor family, has been known to play an important role in the control of cell proliferation. It is also suspected to be a critical mediator of tumor promotion. However, investigations of c-Jun activation patterns in inflammatory and inflammatory transformin...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Marceková Z,Flaig MJ,Kekus M,Ruzicka T,Rupec RA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical haptens induce a variety of allergic immune reactions by induction of hapten-specific T cells. Contact sensitizers such as the hapten trinitrochlorobenzene (TNCB) elicit an allergic response, which is confined to the area of antigen exposure. Despite this localized allergic response, we show here that the tri...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Martin S,Delattre V,Leicht C,Weltzien HU,Simon JC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of adult hair follicle dermal cells to participate in new follicle induction and regeneration, and to elicit responses from diverse epithelial partners, demonstrates a level of developmental promiscuity and influence far exceeding that of interfollicular fibroblasts. We have recently suggested that adult ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Gharzi A,Reynolds AJ,Jahoda CA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a highly aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer which is twice as lethal as melanoma as more than one-third of MCC patients will die from this cancer. Although MCC, which primarily affects elderly and immune suppressed individuals, is very rare to date, its incidence is rapidly increasing...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Houben R,Schrama D,Becker JC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, decreased interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and increased interleukin (IL)-4 production have been reported in measurements of the content of the cytokines in culture supernatants of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) obtained from patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). These data suggest deviation of PBMC i...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Nakagawa S,Aiba S,Tagami H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied atomic force microscopy (AFM) to visualize ultrastructural changes of the keratinocyte morphology after narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) irradiation. Immortalized human keratinocytes were cultured under standard conditions, irradiated with NB-UVB light at doses ranging from 50 to 800 mJ/cm2 and imaged by ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Reich A,Lehmann B,Meurer M,Muller DJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue-invasive T cells are observed in many inflammatory dermatological diseases, but in most cases, it is not known how they were attracted, what they might recognize, and to which extent they are activated. Answering these questions is surely essential for understanding pathogeneses of the diseases. In a recent iss...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Dornmair K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraepithelial gammadelta T cells are increased in the inflamed small bowel and are also found in increased numbers in cutaneous lesions from patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Thus, these cells might play an important role in the pathogenesis of the disease. We investigated the T-cell receptor (TCR) delta ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Holtmeier W,Pfänder M,Zollner TM,Kaufmann R,Caspary WF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the skin can form complex global and local patterns to meet diverse functional requirements in different parts of the body. To date, the fundamental principles that underlie skin patterning remain poorly understood because of the involvement of multiple interacting processes. Genes involved in the planar c...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Chen J,Chuong CM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the inherited blistering skin disease, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), there is clinical heterogeneity with variable scarring and susceptibility to malignancy. Currently, however, there are few biochemical markers of tissue inflammation or disease progression. We assessed whether the non-histone ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Petrof G,Abdul-Wahab A,Proudfoot L,Pramanik R,Mellerio JE,McGrath JA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The accuracy of diagnosis of skin cancer and especially of early malignant melanoma is most important to reduce its morbidity and mortality. Previous pilot studies using electrical impedance measurements indicate statistically significant accuracies for the detection of skin cancer. OBJECTIVES:The aim of th...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Aberg P,Birgersson U,Elsner P,Mohr P,Ollmar S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases and their receptors have poorly understood roles in skin fibrosis and systemic scleroderma (SSc). We examined the role of protease-activated receptors (PAR(1) and PAR(2) ) in the pathophysiology of human SSc and skin fibrosis. Immunohistochemistry showed that PAR(1) immunoreactivity was positive in fibroblas...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Cevikbas F,Seeliger S,Fastrich M,Hinte H,Metze D,Kempkes C,Homey B,Steinhoff M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) are 3 cytokines that play a key rôle in cutaneous homeostasis and in the immunopathogenesis of a number of dermatologic diseases. Most studies have focused on their production by keratinocytes and Langerhans ce...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Boehm KD,Yun JK,Strohl KP,Elmets CA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that mesenchymal cells (dermal fibroblasts and dermal papilla cells) can stimulate dopa oxidase activity in the skin melanocytes. This study extends the investigation of the influence of the fibroblast in a comparative study of melanogenesis in melanocytes from the hair, the skin and the eye. Cu...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Balafa C,Smith-Thomas L,Phillips J,Moustafa M,George E,Blount M,Nicol S,Westgate G,MacNeil S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detergents irritate skin and affect skin barrier homeostasis. In this study, healthy skin was exposed to 1% sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) in water for 24 h. Biopsies were taken 6 h to 8 days post exposure. Lipid patterns were stained in situ and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to examine mRNA express...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Törmä H,Berne B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal fatty acid-binding protein (E-FABP) is a lipid carrier, originally discovered in human epidermis. We show that E-FABP is almost exclusively expressed in postmitotic (PM) keratinocytes, corresponding to its localization in the highest suprabasal layers, while it is barely expressed in keratinocyte stem cells ...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Dallaglio K,Marconi A,Truzzi F,Lotti R,Palazzo E,Petrachi T,Saltari A,Coppini M,Pincelli C

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) has been shown to have an important role in skin barrier function by regulating differentiation and lipid synthesis in keratinocytes. Oat (Avena sativa) has long been used as a soothing agent to relieve skin irritations, and the clinical benefits of top...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Chon SH,Tannahill R,Yao X,Southall MD,Pappas A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV) triggers induction of matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) and also induces the rapid appearance of p53 protein in the epidermis and dermal fibroblasts. However, little is known about the role of p53 on MMP-1 expression in human skin. Here, we investigated the effects of p53 on basal and UV-induced MMP-...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Kim S,Lee Y,Lee DH,Kim Y,Cho KH,Chung JH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of an anti-inflammatory peptide (antiflammin 1) to reduce irritation when delivered transdermally by iontophoresis was examined. A model drug irritant, chlorpromazine, was co-delivered with and without antiflammin 1 by iontophoresis to hairless guinea pigs transdermally. Quantitative skin irritation meas...

journal_title：Experimental dermatology

authors： Mize NK,Buttery M,Ruis N,Leung I,Cormier M,Daddona P

更新日期：1997-08-01 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