Dysregulation of melanocyte function by Th17-related cytokines: Significance of Th17 cell infiltration in autoimmune vitiligo vulgaris

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-230

  Kotobuki, Yorihisa ^a,b   Tanemura, Atsushi ^a   Yang, Lingli ^a,b   Itoi, Saori ^a   Wataya Kaneda, Mari ^a   Murota, Hiroyuki ^a   Fujimoto, Minoru ^b   Serada, Satoshi ^b   Naka, Tetsuji ^b   Katayama, Ichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interaction with skin resident cells; Melanocyte; Th17 related cytokines; Th17cell; Vitiligo

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MELANIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE VITILIGO VULGARIS; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH17 CELL; VITILIGO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; TH17 CELLS; VITILIGO;

EID: 84862830762     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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