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Suyono H, Sanjaya K, Susanti D. The Role of Antiapoptotic Erythropoietin on Ultraviolet B-Induced Photodamaged Skin Through Inhibition of Sunburn Cells. FOLIA MEDICA INDONESIANA 2020. [DOI: 10.20473/fmi.v56i2.21229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Ultraviolet light causes photodamaged skin leading to photoaging skin. Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) causes epidermal keratinocyte apoptosis, namely sunburn cell, through apoptotic intrinsic pathway. Erythropoietin (EPO) has a role in cytoprotection in various tissues but its role to epidermal skin is not clear yet. This study was designed pretest-posttest control group design. Thirty two male mice Mus musculus, strain Balbc, were divided into control and treatment group, 16 mice each group. All mice were exposured by UV-B light 16mJ/cm2, distance 30 cm, duration 90 seconds, for 3 consecutive days. Four mice each group were randomly sacrificed as pretest data. The control mice were given aquadest subcutaneous injection 0.1 mL, and treatment mice were given EPO subcutaneous injection 0.1 mL (100 IU/kg BW). UVB were given everyday with same protocol above. Treatments were given 4 times, interval 3 days. All mice were sacrificed to examine sunburn cells. Data were performed as mean ± SD and analyzed by t-test using SPSS 17.0 with significant value p<0.05. Sunburn cells of pretest control were 25.00 ± 4.85% and treatment group were 24.83 ± 5.15%. Sunburn cells significantly decreased (p=0.002) in treatment group (31.5 ± 9.39%) than control (50.83 ± 6.70%). UV-B causes sunburn cells formation. EPO inhibits apoptosis through increasing NO production and eNOS expression, inhibiting caspase and proinflammatory cytokines, and increasing antiapoptotic protein. EPO has a role in skin apoptosis inhibition which is shown by decreased sunburn cells
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Bottomley MJ, Thomson J, Harwood C, Leigh I. The Role of the Immune System in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E2009. [PMID: 31022866 PMCID: PMC6515307 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20082009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most common skin cancer. In immunosuppressed populations it is a source of considerable morbidity and mortality due to its enhanced recurrence and metastatic potential. In common with many malignancies, leucocyte populations are both protective against cancer development and also play a role in 'sculpting' the nascent tumor, leading to loss of immunogenicity and tumor progression. UV radiation and chronic viral carriage may represent unique risk factors for cSCC development, and the immune system plays a key role in modulating the response to both. In this review, we discuss the lessons learned from animal and ex vivo human studies of the role of individual leucocyte subpopulations in the development of cutaneous SCC. We then discuss the insights into cSCC immunity gleaned from studies in humans, particularly in populations receiving pharmacological immunosuppression such as transplant recipients. Similar insights in other malignancies have led to exciting and novel immune therapies, which are beginning to emerge into the cSCC clinical arena.
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- Matthew J Bottomley
- Transplantation Research and Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK.
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- Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK.
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- Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK.
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Hatakeyama M, Fukunaga A, Washio K, Taguchi K, Oda Y, Ogura K, Nishigori C. Anti-Inflammatory Role of Langerhans Cells and Apoptotic Keratinocytes in Ultraviolet-B-Induced Cutaneous Inflammation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2017; 199:2937-2947. [PMID: 28893957 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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UV radiation, particularly UVB, is the major risk factor for the induction of skin cancer, and it induces skin inflammation and immunosuppression. Although reports documented that Langerhans cells (LCs) play various roles in photobiology, little is known about whether they contribute to UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation. Recently, the anti-inflammatory effect of apoptotic cells was noted. This study focuses on the roles of LCs and apoptotic cells in UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation. We show that LCs are essential for resolution of UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation. Administration of quinolyl-valyl-O-methylaspartyl-[2,6-difluophenoxy]-methyl ketone, a broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor with potent antiapoptotic properties, inhibited the formation of UVB-induced apoptotic cells and aggravated UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation in wild-type mice. In contrast, exacerbation of UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation following quinolyl-valyl-O-methylaspartyl-[2,6-difluophenoxy]-methyl ketone administration was not observed in LC-depleted mice. These results suggest that the interaction between LCs and apoptotic cells is critical for resolution of UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation. Interestingly, UVB-induced apoptotic keratinocytes were increased in LC-depleted mice. In addition, we revealed that UVB-induced apoptotic keratinocytes were phagocytosed by LCs ex vivo and that prolongation of UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation following treatment with Cytochalasin D, an inhibitor of phagocytosis, was partially attenuated in LC-depleted mice. Collectively, our findings demonstrate that the interaction between LCs and apoptotic cells, possibly via LC-mediated phagocytosis of apoptotic keratinocytes, has an essential anti-inflammatory role in the resolution of UVB-induced cutaneous inflammation.
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- Mayumi Hatakeyama
- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Rickard JA, Anderton H, Etemadi N, Nachbur U, Darding M, Peltzer N, Lalaoui N, Lawlor KE, Vanyai H, Hall C, Bankovacki A, Gangoda L, Wong WWL, Corbin J, Huang C, Mocarski ES, Murphy JM, Alexander WS, Voss AK, Vaux DL, Kaiser WJ, Walczak H, Silke J. TNFR1-dependent cell death drives inflammation in Sharpin-deficient mice. eLife 2014; 3. [PMID: 25443632 PMCID: PMC4270099 DOI: 10.7554/elife.03464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 307] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 10/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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SHARPIN regulates immune signaling and contributes to full transcriptional activity and prevention of cell death in response to TNF in vitro. The inactivating mouse Sharpin cpdm mutation causes TNF-dependent multi-organ inflammation, characterized by dermatitis, liver inflammation, splenomegaly, and loss of Peyer's patches. TNF-dependent cell death has been proposed to cause the inflammatory phenotype and consistent with this we show Tnfr1, but not Tnfr2, deficiency suppresses the phenotype (and it does so more efficiently than Il1r1 loss). TNFR1-induced apoptosis can proceed through caspase-8 and BID, but reduction in or loss of these players generally did not suppress inflammation, although Casp8 heterozygosity significantly delayed dermatitis. Ripk3 or Mlkl deficiency partially ameliorated the multi-organ phenotype, and combined Ripk3 deletion and Casp8 heterozygosity almost completely suppressed it, even restoring Peyer's patches. Unexpectedly, Sharpin, Ripk3 and Casp8 triple deficiency caused perinatal lethality. These results provide unexpected insights into the developmental importance of SHARPIN. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03464.001 In response to an injury or infection, areas of the body can become inflamed as the immune system attempts to repair the damage and/or destroy any microbes or toxins that have entered the body. At the level of individual cells inflammation can involve cells being programmed to die in one of two ways: apoptosis and necroptosis. Apoptosis is a highly controlled process during which the contents of the cell are safely destroyed in order to prevent damage to surrounding cells. Necroptosis, on the other hand, is not controlled: the cell bursts and releases its contents into the surroundings. Inflammation is activated by a protein called TNFR1, which is controlled by a complex that includes a protein called SHARPIN. Mice that lack the SHARPIN protein develop inflammation on the skin and internal organs, even in the absence of injury or infection. However, it is not clear how SHARPIN controls TNFR1 to prevent inflammation. Rickard et al. and, independently Kumari et al. have now studied this process in detail. Rickard et al. cross bred mice that lack SHARPIN with mice lacking other proteins involved in inflammation and cell death. The experiments show that apoptosis is the main form of cell death in skin inflammation, but necroptosis has a bigger role in the inflammation of internal organs. Mice that lack both the apoptotic and necroptotic cell-death pathways can develop relatively normally, but they die shortly after birth if they also lack SHARPIN. Experiments on these mice could help us to understand how SHARPIN works. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03464.002
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- James A Rickard
- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Cell Death, Cancer, and Inflammation, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cell Death, Cancer, and Inflammation, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States
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- Centre for Cell Death, Cancer, and Inflammation, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cell Signalling and Cell Death Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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Calvo-Castro L, Syed DN, Chamcheu JC, Vilela FMP, Pérez AM, Vaillant F, Rojas M, Mukhtar H. Protective effect of tropical highland blackberry juice (Rubus adenotrichos Schltdl.) against UVB-mediated damage in human epidermal keratinocytes and in a reconstituted skin equivalent model. Photochem Photobiol 2013; 89:1199-207. [PMID: 23711186 DOI: 10.1111/php.12104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation, particularly its UVB (280-320 nm) spectrum, is the primary environmental stimulus leading to skin carcinogenesis. Several botanical species with antioxidant properties have shown photochemopreventive effects against UVB damage. Costa Rica's tropical highland blackberry (Rubus adenotrichos) contains important levels of phenolic compounds, mainly ellagitannins and anthocyanins, with strong antioxidant properties. In this study, we examined the photochemopreventive effect of R. adenotrichos blackberry juice (BBJ) on UVB-mediated responses in human epidermal keratinocytes and in a three-dimensional (3D) reconstituted normal human skin equivalent (SE). Pretreatment (2 h) and posttreatment (24 h) of normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEKs) with BBJ reduced UVB (25 mJ cm(-2))-mediated (1) cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and (2) 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) formation. Furthermore, treatment of NHEKs with BBJ increased UVB-mediated (1) poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavage and (2) activation of caspases 3, 8 and 9. Thus, BBJ seems to alleviate UVB-induced effects by reducing DNA damage and increasing apoptosis of damaged cells. To establish the in vivo significance of these findings to human skin, immunohistochemistry studies were performed in a 3D SE model, where BBJ was also found to decrease CPDs formation. These data suggest that BBJ may be developed as an agent to ameliorate UV-induced skin damage.
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- Laura Calvo-Castro
- Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica; Centro de Investigación en Estructuras Microscópicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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Lee CH, Wu SB, Hong CH, Yu HS, Wei YH. Molecular Mechanisms of UV-Induced Apoptosis and Its Effects on Skin Residential Cells: The Implication in UV-Based Phototherapy. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:6414-35. [PMID: 23519108 PMCID: PMC3634415 DOI: 10.3390/ijms14036414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Revised: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The human skin is an integral system that acts as a physical and immunological barrier to outside pathogens, toxicants, and harmful irradiations. Environmental ultraviolet rays (UV) from the sun might potentially play a more active role in regulating several important biological responses in the context of global warming. UV rays first encounter the uppermost epidermal keratinocytes causing apoptosis. The molecular mechanisms of UV-induced apoptosis of keratinocytes include direct DNA damage (intrinsic), clustering of death receptors on the cell surface (extrinsic), and generation of ROS. When apoptotic keratinocytes are processed by adjacent immature Langerhans cells (LCs), the inappropriately activated Langerhans cells could result in immunosuppression. Furthermore, UV can deplete LCs in the epidermis and impair their migratory capacity, leading to their accumulation in the dermis. Intriguingly, receptor activator of NF-κB (RANK) activation of LCs by UV can induce the pro-survival and anti-apoptotic signals due to the upregulation of Bcl-xL, leading to the generation of regulatory T cells. Meanwhile, a physiological dosage of UV can also enhance melanocyte survival and melanogenesis. Analogous to its effect in keratinocytes, a therapeutic dosage of UV can induce cell cycle arrest, activate antioxidant and DNA repair enzymes, and induce apoptosis through translocation of the Bcl-2 family proteins in melanocytes to ensure genomic integrity and survival of melanocytes. Furthermore, UV can elicit the synthesis of vitamin D, an important molecule in calcium homeostasis of various types of skin cells contributing to DNA repair and immunomodulation. Taken together, the above-mentioned effects of UV on apoptosis and its related biological effects such as proliferation inhibition, melanin synthesis, and immunomodulations on skin residential cells have provided an integrated biochemical and molecular biological basis for phototherapy that has been widely used in the treatment of many dermatological diseases.
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- Chih-Hung Lee
- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung 812, Taiwan; E-Mail:
- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; E-Mail:
- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan; E-Mail:
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- Department of Dermatology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan; E-Mail:
- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung City 813, Taiwan
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- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; E-Mail:
- Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan; E-Mail:
- Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City 252, Taiwan
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +886-2-2826-7118; Fax: +886-2-2826-4843
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Chen HY, Dillaman RM, Roer RD, Watson RD. Stage-specific changes in calcium concentration in crustacean (Callinectes sapidus) Y-organs during a natural molting cycle, and their relation to the hemolymphatic ecdysteroid titer. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2012; 163:170-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2012] [Revised: 05/30/2012] [Accepted: 05/30/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Kaneko K, Walker SL, Lai-Cheong J, Matsui MS, Norval M, Young AR. cis-Urocanic acid enhances prostaglandin E2 release and apoptotic cell death via reactive oxygen species in human keratinocytes. J Invest Dermatol 2011; 131:1262-71. [PMID: 21412256 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2011.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Urocanic acid (UCA) is a major UVR-absorbing skin molecule that undergoes trans to cis photoisomerization in the epidermis following UVR exposure. Murine studies have established that cis-UCA is an important mediator of UVR-induced immune suppression, but little is known about its signaling pathway. We have previously demonstrated that treatment of normal human epidermal keratinocytes with cis-UCA resulted in increased synthesis of prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) and cell death. Here, using immortalized human keratinocytes, we report that cis-UCA but not trans-UCA generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) in a dose-dependent manner and that the natural antioxidant α-tocopherol can reduce this ROS generation, subsequent PGE(2) release, and apoptotic cell death. Western blot analysis revealed that cis-UCA leads to a transient phosphorylation of EGFR as well as downstream mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and p38. Pharmacological inhibition of their activity attenuated PGE(2) release induced by cis-UCA. After transient activation, cis-UCA downregulated EGFR protein expression that corresponded to activation of caspase-3. In addition, pretreatment with α-tocopherol inhibited EGFR downregulation and caspase-3 activation induced by cis-UCA. These results suggest that cis-UCA exerts its effects on human keratinocytes via intracellular ROS generation that modulates EGFR signaling and subsequently induces PGE(2) synthesis and apoptotic cell death.
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- Kazuyo Kaneko
- St John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK
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Prignano F, Ricceri F, Bianchi B, Guasti D, Bonciolini V, Lotti T, Pimpinelli N. Dendritic cells: ultrastructural and immunophenotypical changes upon nb-UVB in vitiligo skin. Arch Dermatol Res 2010; 303:231-8. [PMID: 21174109 DOI: 10.1007/s00403-010-1109-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2010] [Revised: 11/29/2010] [Accepted: 11/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The role of dendritic cells in vitiligo is still unclear. Few studies have provided contradictory results about their quantitative variation and no data exist concerning their immunophenotypical distribution in diseased skin. The purpose of our study was to analyze the presence, the distribution, the immunophenotypical markers and the effects of nb-UVB therapy on dendritic cells in non-lesional, perilesional, and lesional vitiligo skin. Punch-biopsies of 6 mm were taken from lesional, perilesional, and non-lesional skin of 12 patients affected by non-segmental vitiligo, treated with nb-UVB. An immunohistochemical and an ultrastructural analysis were performed. Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analysis showed both quantitative and qualitative modifications of Langerhans cells. Nb-UVB therapy, one of the most effective treatments for the disease, was able to reduce the Langerhans cells number and to redistribute main dendritic subsets. This study underlines the importance of dendritic cells, Langerhans cells in particular, in non-segmental vitiligo, in its pathogenesis and in its better therapeutical approach.
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- Francesca Prignano
- Division of Clinical, Preventive and Oncology Dermatology, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, Italy.
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Dupont E, Craciun L. UV-induced immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory actions: mechanisms and clinical applications. Immunotherapy 2010; 1:205-10. [PMID: 20635942 DOI: 10.2217/1750743x.1.2.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The introduction in 1974 of psoralens UVA (PUVA) therapy followed in 1987 by extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) has launched UV light in medicine field. A significant number of potential mechanisms could be linked to the basic cellular UV action (i.e., DNA damage and subsequent cells apoptosis). Phagocytosis by macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) leads, through a receptor-mediated process, to their modulation. A state of antigen-specific tolerance is induced by induction of Treg cells, inhibition of DCs, which remain at a an immature state, inhibition of production of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-2, IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha and IL-12, and induction of production of cytokines IL-10, TGF-beta and IL-1Ra. Beside cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, use of ECP remains experimental except for graft-versus-host disease, especially the chronic-resistant form. The sparing action of corticosteroids as described in studies on transplantation deserves further attention.
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- Etienne Dupont
- Department of Immunology, Hematology & Transfusion, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
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Chen HY, Watson RD. Changes in intracellular calcium concentration in crustacean (Callinectes sapidus) Y-organs: relation to the hemolymphatic ecdysteroid titer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 315:56-60. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Kushwah R, Hu J. Dendritic cell apoptosis: regulation of tolerance versus immunity. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2010; 185:795-802. [PMID: 20601611 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Dendritic cell (DC) apoptosis is an important event that regulates the balance between tolerance and immunity through multiple pathways, and defects in DC apoptosis can trigger autoimmunity. DC apoptosis is also associated with immunosuppression and has been observed under several pathologies and infections. Recent studies indicate that apoptotic DCs can also play an active role in induction of tolerance. This review discusses the regulatory pathways of DC apoptosis, stimuli inducing DC apoptosis, and the implications of DC apoptosis in the induction of immunosuppression and/or tolerance.
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- Rahul Kushwah
- Physiology and Experimental Medicine Research Program, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Kojima T, Norose T, Tsuchiya K, Sakamoto K. Mouse 3T3-L1 cells acquire resistance against oxidative stress as the adipocytes differentiate via the transcription factor FoxO. Apoptosis 2010; 15:83-93. [PMID: 19842039 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-009-0415-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Repression of excessive increase and enlargement of adipocytes that is closely associated with obesity is effective in the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome. Generally, apoptosis is induced in cells via a wide variety of intracellular or extracellular substances, and recently, it has been suggested that the FoxO subfamily is involved in the induction of apoptosis. We aimed to elucidate the mechanism of FoxO-mediated apoptosis-induction in the adipocytes under the reactive oxygen species (ROS) stimulus. The treatment of differentiated and undifferentiated 3T3-L1 cells with glucose oxidase (GOD), an enzyme that generates H(2)O(2), induced apoptosis and led to the accumulation of 8-OHdG. Apoptosis analysis revealed that GOD treatment induced apoptosis in differentiated 3T3-L1 cells less efficiently than in undifferentiated preadipocytes. GOD remarkably increased the levels of Bad, Bax, and Bim-the genes that are actively involved in cell apoptosis. GOD treatment also increased the expression of FoxO3a mRNA and protein. The introduction of FoxO3a-siRNA into 3T3-L1 cells suppressed the oxidative stress-induced expression of Bim mRNA, as well as the GOD-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, the expression of MnSOD, Cu/ZnSOD, and catalase, as well as of FoxO, increased significantly along with the progression of adipocyte differentiation. These results indicated that ROS-induced apoptosis in undifferentiated 3T3-L1 cells via the expression of FoxO3a, whereas FoxO expression suppressed the ROS-induced apoptosis in differentiated 3T3-L1 cells via the expression of ROS-scavenging enzymes.
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- Takayuki Kojima
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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[What's new in dermatological research?]. Ann Dermatol Venereol 2010; 136 Suppl 7:S407-16. [PMID: 20110056 DOI: 10.1016/s0151-9638(09)73382-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fundamental research in Dermatology has been once more very active during the past year and more specifically focused on immunological grounds of inflammatory diseases, the identification of risk loci associated with psoriasis and tumors, cutaneous lymphomas and on the genodermatosis where large international collaborative studies provided with a molecular understanding of an increasing amount of conditions especially affecting pigmentation and differentiation. In silico investigations become increasingly prominent especially with the rising power of new actor, China, the demographical and resulting epidemiological weight of which can hardly be challenged. Some of these fundamental breakthroughs might result in practical interventions although in an undefined future.
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BH3-only proteins and their effects on cancer. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2010; 687:49-63. [PMID: 20919637 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6706-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Apoptosis, a form of cellular suicide is a key mechanism involved in the clearance of cells that are dysfunctional, superfluous or infected. For this reason, the cell needs mechanisms o sense death cues and relay death signals to the apoptotic machinery involved in cellular execution. In the intrinsic apoptotic pathway, a subclass of BCL-2 family proteins called the BH3-onlyproteins are responsible for triggering apoptosis in response to varied cellular stress cues. The mechanisms by which they are regulated are tied to the type of cellular stress they sense. Once triggered, they interact with other BCL-2 family proteins to cause mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization which in turn results in the activation ofserine proteases necessary for cell killing. Failure to properly sense death cues and relay the death signal can have a major impact on cancer. This chapter will discuss our current models of how BH3-only proteins function as well as their impact on carcinogenesis and cancer treatment.
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Protein Kinase Cε Reveals Importance of Extrinsic Apoptosis in Preventing UV Carcinogenesis. J Invest Dermatol 2009; 129:1853-6. [DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The immune system is routinely exposed to dead cells during normal cell turnover, injury and infection. Mechanisms must exist to discriminate between different forms of cell death to correctly eliminate pathogens and promote healing while avoiding responses to self, which can result in autoimmunity. However, an effective immune response against host tissue is often needed to eliminate tumours following treatment with chemotherapeutic agents that trigger tumour cell death. Consequently, a central problem in immunology is to understand how the immune system determines whether cell death is immunogenic, tolerogenic or 'silent'.
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- Douglas R Green
- Department of Immunology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA. e-mails:
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Franco R, Sánchez-Olea R, Reyes-Reyes EM, Panayiotidis MI. Environmental toxicity, oxidative stress and apoptosis: ménage à trois. Mutat Res 2008; 674:3-22. [PMID: 19114126 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2008.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 345] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Apoptosis is an evolutionary conserved homeostatic process involved in distinct physiological processes including organ and tissue morphogenesis, development and senescence. Its deregulation is also known to participate in the etiology of several human diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders. Environmental stressors (cytotoxic agents, pollutants or toxicants) are well known to induce apoptotic cell death and to contribute to a variety of pathological conditions. Oxidative stress seems to be the central element in the regulation of the apoptotic pathways triggered by environmental stressors. In this work, we review the established mechanisms by which oxidative stress and environmental stressors regulate the apoptotic machinery with the aim to underscore the relevance of apoptosis as a component in environmental toxicity and human disease progression.
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- Rodrigo Franco
- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P. O. Box 12233, 111. T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States.
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