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The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin diseases, and the National Cancer Institute.UCI Graduate Division provides leadership on graduate education matters, working with scholars from all over the world to engage in study, teaching and research in the pursuit of a master’s or Ph.D. This work was made possible, in part, through access to the Genomics High Throughput Facility Shared Resource of the Cancer Center Support Grant at the University of California, Irvine and three National Institutes of Health shared instrumentation. Further studies are needed to improve the understanding of how keratinocyte states affect the tissue microenvironment and contribute to disease pathogenesis. The findings of this study raise the possibility of targeting keratinocyte metabolism in vitiligo treatment. Studies are currently underway to investigate when metabolically altered keratinocytes first appear and how they may affect the repigmentation process in patients undergoing treatment.
Most studies on vitiligo have focused on active disease, while stable vitiligo remains somewhat of a mystery. Keratinocytes are epidermal cells which produce keratin. MPM is a noninvasive imaging technique capable of providing images with sub-micron resolution and label-free molecular contrast which can be used to characterize keratinocyte metabolism in human skin. MPM is a unique tool that has broad applications in human skin. In patients that responded to punch grafting treatment, these changes were reversed, highlighting their role in disease persistence." "By combining non-invasive multiphoton microscopy (MPM) imaging and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), we identified distinct subpopulations of keratinocytes in lesional skin of stable vitiligo patients along with the changes in cellular compositions in stable vitiligo skin that drive disease persistence. "Until now, the interaction between immune cells, melanocytes, and keratinocytes in situ in human skin has been difficult to study due to the lack of proper tools," said Jessica Shiu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and one of the first authors of the study. Melanocyte destruction in active vitiligo is mediated by CD8+ T cells, but until now, why the white patches in stable disease persist was poorly understood. This disease has shown to cause significant psychological distress among patients. Vitiligo is an autoimmune skin disease that is characterized by the progressive destruction of melanocytes, which are mature melanin-forming cells in the skin, by immune cells called autoreactive CD8+ T cells that result in disfiguring patches of white depigmented skin. "This discovery will enable us to determine why white patches continue to persist in stable vitiligo disease, which could lead to new therapeutics to treat this disease." Ganesan, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology and vice chair for dermatology research at UCI School of Medicine. "In this study, we couple advanced imaging with transcriptomics and bioinformatics to discover the cell-to-cell communication networks between keratinocytes, immune cells and melanocytes that drive inflammation and prevent repigmentation caused by vitiligo," said Anand K. The study, titled, "Multimodal Analyses of Vitiligo Skin Identifies Tissue Characteristics of Stable Disease," was published today in JCI Insight.
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