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THE ROLE OF CYTOKINES IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF PSORIASIS AND ITS CLINICAL APPLICATION

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05670746
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Dermatology
Research InstitutionTEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Principal Investigator

TAKEMATSU Hideaki  TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 医学部, 助教授 (80124600)

Project Period (FY) 1993
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
KeywordsPSORIASIS / CHEMOTAXIS / IL-8 / COMPLEMENT / SQUIRTING PAPILLAE / CYTOKINE / TNF
Research Abstract

Psoriatic scale extracts contain a unique chemotactic peptide fraction that is likely to be involved in the induction of rhythmic transepidermal leukocyte chemotaxis. Recent studies have identified the presence of two unrelated chemotactic peptides in this fraction, ie, C5a/C5a des Arg and interleukin 8(IL-8), and its related cytokines. To investigate their relative contribution to the transepidermal leukocyte migration as well as their interrelationship in psoriatic lesions, we have quantitied concentrations of immunoreactive C5a/C5a des Arg and IL-8 in psoriatic lesional scale extracts and those from related sterile pustular dermatoses such as subcorneal pustular dermatosis and pustulosis palmaris et plantaris.
The concentrations of C5a/C5a des Arg and IL-8 were more significantly increased in the horny-tissue extracts from lesional skin than in those from noninflamatory orthokeratotic skin (P<.01). The increase of C5a/C5a des Arg concentration was specific to the lesional scale extra … More cts, but showed a rather wide range of variation. By contrast, IL-8 concentration, although consistently increased in the lesional scale extracts, was also moderately increased even in noninflammatory scale extracts prepared from ichthyosis vulgaris. The elevation of IL-8 levels in psoriatic lesions was also confirmed by measuring their levels in cutaneous tissue fluid samples collected from suction blisters. However, unexpectedly, some control samples obtained from normal skin also showed a moderate increase in the IL-8 level. Neutrophil chemotactic activity correlated significantly only with the levels of C5a/C5a des Arg in the scales (P<.05). No such significant correlation was found between chemotactic activity and IL-8 or between C5a/C5a des Arg and IL-8.
Based on these results, we speculate that, although IL-8 may exert a synergistic effect with C5a/C5a des Arg in the induction of transepidermal leukocyte chemotaxis, it constitutes a proinflammatory cytokine that is involved in the production of the persistent inflammatory changes characterized by a T-lymphocyte infiltration. In contrast, C5a/C5a des Arg seems to be generated only in the inflammatory lesional skin under specific circumstances that preferentially favor complement activation and also seems to play a major role in the induction of cyclic transepidermal leukocyte chemotaxis from "squirting papillae." Less

Report

(2 results)
  • 1993 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] Takematsu H,Tagami H: "Quantification of chemotactic peptides(C5a anaphylatoyin)in psoriatic lesional skin" Archives of Dermatology. 129. 74-80 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 竹松英明: "無菌性膿疱症に関与する化学伝達物質" 十全医学会雑誌. 102. 483 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 竹松英明: "好酸球性膿疱性毛包炎" 南江堂, 1 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 田上八朗,竹松英明: "In vitroにおけるケラチノサイトのinterleukin8の産生と分泌" 厚生省特定疾患希少難治性疾患調査研究班, 3 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takematsu H,Tagami H: "Quanti-fication of chemotactic peptides(C5a anaphylatoyin)in psoriatic lesional skin" Archives of Dermatology. 129. 74-80 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 竹松英明: "無菌性膿疱症に関与する化学伝達物質" 十全医学会雑誌. 102. 483 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 竹松英明: "好酸球性膿疱性毛包炎" 南江堂, 1 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 田上八朗、竹松英明: "In vitroにおけるケラチノサイトのinterleukin8の産生と分泌" 厚生省特定疾患希少難治性疾患調査研究班, 3 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report

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