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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022

Differentially Expressed Circular RNAs and Their Therapeutic Mechanism in Non-segmental Vitiligo Patients Treated With Methylprednisolone.

Jiaqi Zhang, Ning Liang, Yan Cao, Min Li

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of case series and clinical trials investigating systemic oral or injectable therapies for the treatment of vitiligo.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2024
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  3. Epigenetic Modifications in Vitiligo.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025
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  5. Skin Aging and the Upcoming Role of Ferroptosis in Geroscience.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  6. Ferroptosis: Mechanism and connections with cutaneous diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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Jiaqi ZhangDepartment of Dermatology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China.
Ning LiangDepartment of Dermatology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China.
Yan CaoDepartment of Dermatology, The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China.
Min LiDepartment of Dermatology, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitiligo is characterized by chronic skin depigmentation arising from the autoimmune destruction of epidermal melanocytes. Systemic corticosteroid therapy is an effective immunosuppressive treatment for progressive generalized vitiligo. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play various roles in diseases. In systemic corticosteroid therapy, however, how circRNAs function to counter vitiligo is still unclear. In this article, we identified the differentially expressed circRNAs (DEcircRNAs) in vitiligo patients before and after the administration of methylprednisolone. Total RNA was extracted from the peripheral blood of patients with vitiligo, and samples were hybridized into a circRNA array. A total of 375 (51 upregulated and 324 downregulated) circRNAs were differentially expressed. Box, scatter, volcano, and heatmap plots were generated to classify the samples. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses were performed on DEcircRNAs. These DEcircRNAs were enriched in vitiligo-related biological processes, such as ferroptosis, organic substance transport, protein metabolic process, and cellular component organization or biogenesis. Two different databases, TargetScan and miRanda, were used to predict circRNA/miRNA interactions. Several circRNA/miRNA interactions were involved in ferroptosis. These circRNAs might serve as therapeutic targets in the treatment of vitiligo.

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circRNAferroptosismethylprednisolonetreatmentvitiligo

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PMID35652072
PMCPMC9149005

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