Psoriasis results from cross-talk between immune cells and keratinocytes in the skin. The nature of these signals now comes to light, revealing potential roles for IL-23 and a T H 17 response.

Smoking is responsible for decreasing the body’s inflammatory process and immune function (due to a reduced blood flow), ...

A new review has highlighted how skin tone can affect the safety and effectiveness of some medications and why the current ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...

Researchers identified Janus kinase inhibitors as a promising treatment for the severe drug-induced skin condition toxic ...

Abnormal growth of skin cells or keratinocytes and immune system dysfunction are believed to cause psoriasis. The immune system dysfunction involves pro-inflammatory molecules such as tumor ...

A large Medicare cohort study found that the most common locations of procedurally treated keratinocyte cancers ... that patients prefer rhenium-188 skin cancer therapy (RSCT) over surgery in ...

"Retinol increases skin cell turnover, aiding in skin renewal," says Dr, Mian. "This improves skin texture and evens out skin tone." Keratinocytes are the primary type of skin cells found in the ...

Skin pigmentation may act as a "sponge" for some medications, potentially influencing the speed with which active drugs reach ...

In patients with primary thyroid cancer, there is an increased risk of melanoma and other non-keratinocyte skin cancers after ...

Psoriasis is a multifactorial immune-mediated inflammatory disease. Its pathogenesis involves abnormal accumulation of neutrophils and T-cell related abnormalities. Pyroptosis is a type of regulated ...