Recent evidence indicates that PDPN is also expressed in keratinocytes especially of sebaceous selleck glands.
Objective: To verify expression-pattern
and the regulatory mechanism of PDPN in human epidermal keratinocytes.
Methods: PDPN-expression pattern was analyzed in normal and psoriatic epidermis by immunostaining. The regulatory mechanism of PDPN-expression of keratinocytes by cytokines was analyzed using specific inhibitors, siRNA, and adenoviral shRNA of signaling pathways.
Results: In normal skin. PDPN was expressed on the basal cell layer of sebaceous glands and on the outer root sheath of hair follicles. While no expression was detected in the normal interfollicular epidermis, PDPN was detected in the basal cell layer of wound and hyperproliferative Citarinostat chemical structure psoriatic epidermis, where the granular layer is lacking. TGF-beta 1 and IFN-gamma independently upregulated PDPN-expression of keratinocytes via TGF-beta receptor-Smad pathway and JAK-STAT pathway, respectively. IL-6 and IL-22 also stimulated
PDPN-expression of keratinocytes accompanied by STAT-3 phosphorylation. siRNA of STAT-1, inhibitors of STAT-3 signaling, AG490, STAT-3 inhibitor VI, and si/shRNA of STAT-3 inhibited the PDPN-expression of keratinocytes induced by IFN-gamma, IL-6 and IL-22 but not by TGF-beta 1.
Conclusion: These results indicate that TGF-beta 1, IFN-gamma, IL-6, and IL-22 induce PDPN-expression of keratinocytes, which might be significantly involved in the wound healing GSI-IX mouse process as well as in the pathomechanism of hyperproliferative psoriatic epidermis. (C) 2011 Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights
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“Hydrodynamic simulations of dynamic compression experiments reveal that heating as well as entropy production in the target are much lower along quasi-isentropes, generated using impactors employing functionally graded material (FGM), than in shock compression. The possibility of achieving quasi-isentropic compression using FGM, in both gas gun and explosive driven systems, was explored in a recent paper. Qualitative analyses of temporal profiles of pressure pulse generated in the target, obtained with various density distributions within FGM impactors, showed that quadratic density variation is most suitable. This paper attempts to re-establish this finding by identifying the signatures of quasi-isentropic compression from basic thermodynamic aspects. It is shown that quadratic density variation is most suitable candidate as it leads to least entropy increase for a specific peak pressure. Further, the optimum density profile, found by genetic algorithm based optimization tool, with density of individual layers as variables, is shown to have good agreement with quadratic density function. Finally, we explore the possibility of using layers of commonly available materials with increasing shock impedances for a generation of isentropic compression.