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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2025

Recent clinical and mechanistic insights into vitiligo offer new treatment options for cell-specific autoimmunity.

Khaled Ezzedine, Rim Tannous, Todd F Pearson, John E Harris

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Methodological strategies for mappingWorld journal of methodology · 2026
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  8. Lipidome Complexity in Physiological and Pathological Skin Pigmentation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Khaled EzzedineDepartment of Dermatology, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne-Université Paris, Paris, France.
Rim TannousDepartment of Dermatology, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne-Université Paris, Paris, France.
Todd F PearsonDepartment of Dermatology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
John E HarrisDepartment of Dermatology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

P50-Admin Core-Harris/GarbP50AR080593 · NIAMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI John E Harris · 2022 to 2026
$9.2M
Predictive drivers of new onset, relapse, and progression of human autoimmunity in skinU01AI176310 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Manuel Garber, John E Harris · 2023 to 2026
$5.3M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI176310NIAMS NIH HHS P50 AR080593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that has been recognized, stigmatized, and treated for millennia. Recent translational research has revealed key mechanisms of disease, including cellular stress, innate immune activation, T cell-mediated elimination of melanocytes from the skin resulting in clinically apparent white spots, as well as stem cell regeneration that reverses established lesions. Many of these pathways have been targeted therapeutically, leading to the first FDA-approved medication to reverse the disease, with many more in clinical trials. Despite these impressive advances, many questions remain, which will be answered through integration of additional basic, translational, and clinical research studies. This vitiligo revolution has led to great excitement for individuals with vitiligo, those who know them, and the dermatologists who care for their patients. But just as importantly, these advances have great potential to shed light on autoimmune diseases that are more difficult to study, possibly leading to treatment advances that could not be achieved otherwise.

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Autoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityVitiligoAnimalsHumansMelanocytesT-Lymphocytes

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PMID39817457
PMCPMC11735104

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