Dendritic cells in psoriasis and effects of efalizumab

银屑病中的树突状细胞和依法珠单抗的作用

• 批准号: 7588741
• 负责人: MICHELLE A LOWES
• 金额: $ 13.54万
• 依托单位: ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7588741
• 关键词: Affect; Animal Model; Antibodies; Antigens; Apoptosis; Area; Autoimmune Diseases; Autoimmunity; Biological Response Modifier Therapy; Biopsy; Blood; Blood Circulation; Cell Communication; Cell Maturation; Cells; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Trials; Color; Complex; Complex Mixtures; Core Facility; Cutaneous; Dendritic Cells; Dendritic cell activation; Dermal; Dermatologist; Development Plans; Differentiation and Growth; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Endothelial Cells; Environment; Equipment; Fee-for-Service Plans; Funding; Gene Expression; Genes; Genomics; Genotype; Goals; HLA-DR Antigens; Hospitals; Human; ITGAX gene; In Vitro; Infiltration; Inflammation; Inflammation Mediators; Inflammatory; Institution; Laboratories; Lesion; Leukocytes; Ligation; Lymphocyte Function; Medicine; Methods; Modeling; Mus; Myelogenous; NCI Scholars Program; Nitric Oxide Synthase; Pathogenesis; Pathologic; Pathway interactions; Patients; Phenotype; Physicians; Population; Psoriasis; Punch Biopsy; RNA; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resolution; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Scientist; Skin; Surface; Suspension substance; Suspensions; System; T-Lymphocyte; TNF gene; TNFRSF5 gene; Technology; Therapeutic; Time; Translational Research; Universities; bench to bedside; career; career development; cell type; efalizumab; grasp; innovation; keratinocyte; lectures; monocyte; novel; patient oriented; peripheral blood; programs; research study; skin disorder; skin lesion; tool; volunteer

CANDIDATE: I am a dermatologist (MD PhD) and my broad career goal is to be an independent physician- scientist in human translational skin research, particularly in the area of psoriasis. I am proposing to become a multi-disciplinary patient-oriented researcher, with an excellent grasp of a number of technologies, which will allow me to investigate therapeutic, mechanistic and pathologic questions appropriately and deeply. ENVIRONMENT: Rockefeller University is a world-renowned institution with a rich history of bench-bedside research. It provides an ideal environment to carry out this type of clinical research with a dedicated GCRC- funded research hospital, outstanding laboratories, excellent core facilities and equipment, an innovative Clinical Scholars Program for translational research trainees, and several inspiring lecture and seminar programs. There is no fee-for-service medicine at Rockefeller University, so I can dedicate 100% of my time to this career development plan. RESEARCH PROJECT: Psoriasis offers an excellent model of type 1 autoimmunity, and there there is no ideal animal model of psoriasis to study. In the context of a clinical trial with efalizumab (anti-CD11a) for psoriasis, we identified a new type of cutaneous dendritic cell (DC) (CD11c+, HLA-DR+, CD86+, CD40+), which constitutes the most abundant type of leukocyte in psoriasis lesions. It also expresses TNF and iNOS, so these cells may be the human equivalent of recently described murine TNF- and indicible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-producing (TIP)-DCs. I plan to begin basic characterization of complex DC subsets that exist in blood and skin of humans, using efalizumab as a tool to modulate psoriasis disease activity, so that the contribution of different DC subsets to disease pathogenesis can be better refined. Furthermore, I will determine the extent to which efalizumab has direct effects on growth, differentiation and activation of DCs versus indirect effects through T cell modulation.

我是一名皮肤科医生（医学博士），我的职业目标是成为一名独立的医生