Project description:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease and no molecularly targeted therapies exist. Here we evaluate the efficacy of tofacitinib (a JAK1/3 inhibitor) in an open-label trial of 10 patients with sarcoidosis and correlate clinical improvement with molecular parameters in blood and skin.
Project description:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease and no molecularly targeted therapies exist. Here we evaluate the efficacy of tofacitinib (a JAK1/3 inhibitor) in an open-label trial of 10 patients with sarcoidosis and correlate clinical improvement with molecular parameters in blood and skin.
Project description:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease and no molecularly targeted therapies exist. Here we evaluate the efficacy of tofacitinib (a JAK1/3 inhibitor) in an open-label trial of 10 patients with sarcoidosis and correlate clinical improvement with molecular parameters in blood and skin.
Project description:Cutaneous sarcoidosis skin provides relatively non invasive access to granulomatous sarcoidosis tissue. Twenty participants were enrolled: 15 with active CS and 5 healthy volunteers. Microarray analyses comparing non-LS and healthy volunteer skin with LS showed several thousand genes differentially expressed
Project description:Many chronic cutaneous diseases associated with microbial antigens demonstrate clinical progression due to T cell hyporesponsiveness. Appropriate antimicrobial therapy restores T cell function, leading to clinical resolution. Due to the association of sarcoidosis with mycobacterial antigens, we compared the efficacy of antimycobacterial therapy with placebo in chronic cutaneous sarcoidosis.