Dermal Cell News Volume 6.29 | Aug 17 2020

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    Dermal Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 6.29 – 17 August, 2020
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    Disease-Associated KIF3A Variants Alter Gene Methylation and Expression Impacting Skin Barrier and Atopic Dermatitis Risk

    Researchers found that KIF3A SNP rs11740584 and rs2299007 risk alleles created cytosine-phosphate-guanine sites, which were highly methylated and resulted in lower KIF3A expression.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Proenkephalin+ Regulatory T Cells Expanded by Ultraviolet B Exposure Maintain Skin Homeostasis with a Healing Function

    Scientists found that skin Treg cells possessing a healing function were expanded by UVB exposure with the expression of an endogenous opioid precursor, proenkephalin.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Keratinocyte-Specific Peptides-Based Surfaces for Hemidesmosome Upregulation and Prevention of Bacterial Colonization

    The co-immobilized peptide surfaces showed anti-biofilm activity against Streptococcus gordonii while enhancing proliferation, hemidesmosome formation, and mechanical attachment of orally-derived keratinocytes.
    [ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering]

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    Selective Antibiofilm Properties and Biocompatibility of Nano-ZnO and Nano-ZnO/Ag Coated Surfaces

    Researchers demonstrated that surfaces coated with nano-ZnO or nano-ZnO/Ag composites were not cytotoxic to human keratinocytes and possessed species-selective medium-dependent antibiofilm activity against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Inhibition of Wnt Signaling Pathway Suppresses Radiation-Induced Dermal Fibrosis

    Radiation with a single dose of 2 Gy not only facilitated fibrosis in cultured human dermal fibroblasts via activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway but also initiated EMT in cultured keratinocytes, developing collagen-producing mesenchymal cells.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Costello Syndrome Model Mice with a Hras G12S Mutation Are Susceptible to Develop House Dust Mite-Induced Atopic Dermatitis

    Cultured HrasG12S/+ keratinocytes exhibited increased IL-33 expression after Dermatophagoides farinae stimulation.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Usefulness of 2D Shear Wave Elastography for the Diagnosis of Inguinal Lymph Node Metastasis of Malignant Melanoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Scientists determined the presence or absence of metastatic lymphadenopathy in the inguinal lymph nodes of five patients with malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
    [Journal of Dermatology]

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    Ursolic Acid Inhibits Pigmentation by Increasing Melanosomal Autophagy in B16F1 Cells

    Researchers showed that ursolic acid inhibited skin pigmentation by promoting melanosomal autophagy, or melanophagy, in melanocytes.
    [Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications]

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    CD146, from a Melanoma Cell Adhesion Molecule to a Signaling Receptor

    Overexpression of CD146 can be observed in most of malignancies and is implicated in nearly every step of the development and progression of cancers, especially vascular and lymphatic metastasis.
    [Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    RenovaCare Receives FDA Conditional IDE Approval of CellMistâ„¢ System and SkinGunâ„¢ Device, Enabling Clinical Study for Safety and Feasibility

    RenovaCare, Inc. has announced that the US FDA conditionally approved the company’s Investigational Device Exemption application to conduct a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of autologous stem cells rendered by its CellMist™ System from donor skin and applied topically with the SkinGun™ spray device for treatment of burn wounds.
    [RenovaCare, Inc.]

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