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ArticleCell stress & chaperones2018

Topical heat shock protein 70 prevents imiquimod-induced psoriasis-like inflammation in mice.

Federico G Seifarth, Julia E-M Lax, Jennifer Harvey, Paul E DiCorleto, M Elaine Husni, Unnikrishnan M Chandrasekharan, Michael Tytell

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Article in Cell stress & chaperones, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Federico G SeifarthDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
Julia E-M LaxDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
Jennifer HarveyDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
Paul E DiCorletoDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
M Elaine HusniDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
Unnikrishnan M ChandrasekharanDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA. chandru@ccf.org.
Michael TytellDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA. mtytell@wakehealth.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6406-456X
Cleveland Clinic · USCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine · USWake Forest University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with systemic manifestations and potential genetic etiology. The newest treatments utilize antibodies against one of several cytokines known to underlie the inflammatory signaling molecules that produce the skin and systemic symptoms. However, these agents must be regularly injected, and they may compromise the normal responses of the immune system. Furthermore, they do not address the causes of the abnormal immunoregulatory responses of the disease because the etiology is not yet completely understood. In this short-term treatment study, the potential anti-inflammatory activity of an alfalfa-derived Hsp70-containing skin cream (aHsp70) was tested on imiquimod (IMQ)-induced psoriasis-like lesions in wild-type mice. Treatment of the mice with the aHsp70 skin cream simultaneously with the imiquimod application mitigated the induction of psoriatic-like lesions and correlated with altered expression of various skin cytokines.

Indexed as

Administration, CutaneousAnimalsCytokinesHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsImiquimodInflammationMice, Inbred BALB CPsoriasisSkin CreamCytokinesHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsImiquimodAlfalfaAnti-inflammatoryHsp70PsoriasisSkin cream

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PMID29616455
PMCPMC6111098
OpenAlexW2795534033

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