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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 176, 期 5, 页码 2385-2393出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.090957
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
- Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
The barrier abnormality, a loss-of-function mutation In the gene encoding filaggrin (FLG), which is linked to the incidence of atopic dermatitis (AD), is a recently discovered but important factor in the pathogenesis of AD. Flaky tail (Flg(ft)) mice, essentially deficient in filaggrin, have been used to investigate the role of filaggrin on AD. However, the relevancy of Flg(ft) mice to human AD needs to be determined further. In this study, we observed the clinical manifestations of Flg(ft) mice in the steady state and their cutaneous immune responses against external stimuli, favoring human AD. Under specific pathogen-free conditions, the majority of Flg(ft) mice developed clinical and histological eczematous skin lesions similar to human AD with outside-to-inside skin barrier dysfunction evaluated by newly devised methods. In addition, cutaneous hapten-induced contact hypersensitivity as a model of acquired immune response and a mite extract-induced dermatitis model physiologically relevant to a human AD were enhanced in Flg(ft) mice. These results suggest that the Flg(ft) mouse genotype has potential as an animal model of AD corresponding with filaggrin mutation in human AD. (Am J Pathol 2010, 176:2385-2393; DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.090957)
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