1570 NOS2-derived low levels of NO drives psoriasis pathogenesis

Decreased brain-derived neurotrophic factor plasma levels in psoriasis patients

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is associated with neuroplasticity and synaptic strength, and is decreased in conditions associated with chronic stress. Nevertheless, BDNF has not yet been investigated in psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory systemic disease that is exacerbated by stress. Therefore, our aim was to determine BDNF plasma levels in psoriasis patients and healthy controls. Ad...

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Meta-Analysis Derived (MAD) Transcriptome of Psoriasis Defines the “Core” Pathogenesis of Disease

The cause of psoriasis, a common chronic inflammatory skin disease, is not fully understood. Microarray experiments have been widely used in recent years to identify genes associated with psoriasis pathology, by comparing expression levels of lesional (LS) with adjacent non-lesional (NL) skin. It is commonly observed that the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) differ greatly across experimen...

Misbehaving macrophages in the pathogenesis of psoriasis.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease unique to humans. In this issue of the JCI, 2 studies of very different mouse models of psoriasis both report that macrophages play a key role in inducing psoriasis-like skin disease. Psoriasis is clearly a polygenic, inherited disease of uncontrolled cutaneous inflammation. The debate that currently rages in the field is whether psoriasis is a d...

Pathogenesis of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis

Pathophysiology of psoriasis The pathophysiology of psoriasis is multifaceted and dynamic, involving a complex interplay between constitutive cells of the skin and the innate and adaptive immune systems. Until the early 1980s, psoriasis was considered to be primarily a disease of epidermal keratinocyte proliferation, with the cutaneous inflammatory infiltrate a secondary consequence [1]. Howeve...