Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis are genetically determined inflammatory
skin disorders. Keratinocytes actively participate in cutaneous inflammatory responses by …

Background Treatment of pemphigus vulgaris can be challenging. Systemic steroids
associated with other immunosuppressant agents are the mainstay of therapy and have …

Objective To assess the role of platelets and lymphocyte-related immunological mechanisms
in livedo vasculopathy (LV) and cutaneous small vessel vasculitis (CSVV). Livedo …

Cell migration is mediated by a group of chemotactic cytokines called chemokines: low
molecular weight molecules that have been shown as important leukocyte chemical attractants to …

Sézary syndrome (SS) is a rare and aggressive variant of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
characterized by neoplastic distribution mainly involving blood, skin, and lymph-node. Although …

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune skin disease characterized by blister formation
as a result of the interaction of autoantibodies with hemidesmosomal antigens, followed by …

We have previously described proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene‐expression in human
normal cultured dermal fibroblasts, and its dose‐ and time‐dependent modulation by …

Background: No data exist as to Th2 chemokines in erythema multiforme (EM) and Stevens-Johnson
syndrome (SJS)/toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). Objective: To evaluate thymus- …

We describe the clinical and laboratory findings of a young man with mycosis fungoides. The
disease was associated, since the early stages, with autoimmune purpura. Interferon alfa (…

Juvenile Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Page 1 Acta Derm Venereol (Stockh) 1998; 78: 220–239
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Juvenile Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Sir, The mixed type has …