ArticleLupus science & medicine2019
Plucked hair follicles from patients with chronic discoid lupus erythematosus show a disease-specific molecular signature.
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Scalp Cooling for Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia in Patients of Color: A Clinical and Mechanistic Study
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cross-species comparative spatial transcriptomics of hair follicle-T cell interactions identifies conserved drivers of cutaneous lupus erythematosus skin disease and associated hair loss.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Identification of T cell stress response state (TScientific reports · 2025Article
- Emerging concepts of type I interferons in SLE pathogenesis and therapy.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2022Review
- The Genetic Landscape of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- RNA tape sampling in cutaneous lupus erythematosus discriminates affected from unaffected and healthy volunteer skin.Lupus science & medicine · 2021Article
- Non-invasive Approaches for the Diagnosis of Autoimmune/Autoinflammatory Skin Diseases-A Focus on Psoriasis andFrontiers in immunology · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveWhen faced with clinical symptoms of scarring alopecia-the standard diagnostic pathway involves a scalp biopsy which is an invasive and expensive procedure. This project aimed to assess if plucked hair follicles (HFs) containing living epithelial cells can offer a non-invasive approach to diagnosing inflammatory scalp lesions.
methodsLesional and non-lesional HFs were extracted from the scalp of patients with chronic discoid lupus erythematosus (CDLE), psoriasis and healthy controls. RNA was isolated from plucked anagen HFs and microarray, as well as quantitative real-time PCR was performed.
resultsHere, we report that gene expression analysis of only a small number of HF plucked from lesional areas of the scalp is sufficient to differentiate CDLE from psoriasis lesions or healthy HF. The expression profile from CDLE HFs coincides with published profiles of CDLE from skin biopsy. Genes that were highly expressed in lesional CDLE corresponded to well-known histopathological diagnostic features of CDLE and included those related to apoptotic cell death, the interferon signature, complement components and CD8
conclusionsWe therefore propose that information obtained from this non-invasive approach are sufficient to diagnose scalp lupus erythematosus. Once validated in routine clinical settings and compared with other scarring alopecias, this rapid and non-invasive approach will have great potential for paving the way for future diagnosis of inflammatory scalp lesions.
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