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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 4, Pages 1158-1164Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.06.042
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- Scottish Chief Scientists Office
- Medical Research Council
- Chief Scientist Office [ETM/115, CZB/4/697] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0802838, G9818340B] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0802838] Funding Source: UKRI
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D6 is a scavenging-receptor for inflammatory CC chemokines that are essential for resolution of inflammatory responses in mice. Here, we demonstrate that D6 plays a central role in controlling cutaneous inflammation, and that D6 deficiency is associated with development of a psoriasis-like pathology in response to varied inflammatory stimuli in mice. Examination of D6 expression in human psoriatic skin revealed markedly elevated expression in both the epidermis and lymphatic endothelium in uninvolved psoriatic skin (ie, skin that was more than 8 cm distant from psoriatic plaques). Notably, this increased D6 expression is associated with elevated inflammatory chemokine expression, but an absence of plaque development, in uninvolved skin. Along with our previous observations of the ability of epidermally expressed transgenic D6 to impair cutaneous inflammatory responses, our data support a role for elevated D6 levels in suppressing inflammatory chemokine action and lesion development in uninvolved psoriatic skin. D6 expression consistently dropped in perilesional and lesional skin, coincident with development of psoriatic plaques. D6 expression in uninvolved skin also was reduced after trauma, indicative of a role for trauma-mediated reduction in D6 expression in triggering lesion development Importantly, D6 is also elevated in peripheral blood leukocytes in psoriatic patients, indicating that upregulation may be a general protective response to inflammation. Together our data demonstrate a novel role for D6 as a regulator of the transition from uninvolved to lesional skin in psoriasis. (Am J Pathol 2012, 181:1158-1164; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.06.042)
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