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SUBMITTER: Batista MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3777400 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Batista Mariana D MD Ho Emily L EL Kuebler Peter J PJ Milush Jeffrey M JM Lanier Lewis L LL Kallas Esper G EG York Vanessa A VA Chang David D Liao Wilson W Unemori Patrick P Leslie Kieron S KS Maurer Toby T Nixon Douglas F DF
Experimental dermatology 20130101 1
Psoriasis is a hyper-proliferative disease of the skin in which immunological mechanisms play a direct pathogenetic role. There have been limited studies of natural killer (NK) cells in psoriasis. The aim of this study was to examine the phenotype of NK cells in skin biopsies and peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with psoriasis and healthy controls. CD56(+) CD16(-) and CD56(+) CD16(+) NK cells were isolated from lesional skin, unaffected skin and PBMC of psoriasis patients, and ...[more]