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Modeling atopic dermatitis with increasingly complex mouse models.

Scharschmidt TC, Segre JA

University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory skin disorder that affects approximately 15% of children in the United States. A complex disorder, AD is characterized by both skin barrier impairment and immunologic abnormalities, including decreased innate immune function and a polarized adaptive immune response. Mouse models have demonstrated the complex interdependence of immune cell-keratinocyte interactions and teased apart gene-environment relationships in a controlled setting. In this issue, Nagelkerken et al. present a mouse model with transgenic expression of apolipoprotein C1 that disrupts the skin lipid barrier and manifests many hallmark features of AD.

Published 14 April 2008 in J Invest Dermatol, 128(5): 1061-4.
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