Journal
EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 1172-1175Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/exd.13982
Keywords
cytokines; fibrosis; gene expression profile; scleroderma
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (Facepe)
- Instituto de Ciencia e Tecnologia para Inovacao Farmaceutica (INCT_if)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
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Although several cytokines and chemokines have been investigated as possible mediators of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc), specific correlation between cytokines and organ involvement have not been found yet, and a cytokine profile characteristic of SSc is far to be identified. We studied the profile of antifibrotic and profibrotic transcripts involved in skin of SSc patients. The mRNA expression was detected by fluorescence-based quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) in skin's biopsies from 14 patients with SSc and 5 healthy controls. PDGF-A, CTGF, CCL3, IL-6, IL-13, IL-7, IFN gamma, IL-17, IL-22 and RORc were analysed in these samples. CCL3, IL-7, IL-13 and IFN-gamma were more expressed in skin's biopsy of patients with SSc (P = 0.0002, P = 0.0082, P = 0.0243, P = 0.0335, respectively) when compared with healthy controls. We also found a positive correlation between CCL3 and IL-7 transcripts (P = 0.0050 r = 0.7187). Furthermore, we observed that patients with lung involvement had lower expression of PDGF-A (P = 0.0385). We found an increase in IL-7, IFN-gamma, CCL3 and IL-13 relative mRNA expressions on the skin's biopsy of patients with SSc, and a positive correlation between IL-7 and CCL3. These molecules are involved in the pathogenesis of SSc, and how their interactions occur should be the subject of further studies.
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