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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-11-8
pubmed:abstractText
In persons with onchocerciasis, topical application of the anthelminthic diethylcarbamazine (DEC) induces clinical and histologic responses similar to acute papular onchodermatitis, including recruitment of eosinophils to the skin. To determine whether the eosinophil chemokine eotaxin is likely to be associated with eosinophil recruitment in onchodermatitis, DEC was applied to a 5-cm2 area on the skin of infected persons, and biopsies were taken from lesions 24 h later. Histologic analysis showed elevated dermal and epidermal eosinophils compared with tissue from an adjacent (untreated) site. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction showed that eotaxin gene expression in DEC-treated skin was elevated 2- to 17-fold compared with control tissue. Eotaxin immunoreactivity was noted in mononuclear cells and eosinophils in the perivascular region of the dermis and in lymphatic and vascular endothelial cells. Together, these observations are consistent with a role for eotaxin in recruitment of eosinophils to the dermis in early stage onchocercal skin disease.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0022-1899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
180
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1394-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Administration, Topical, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Antiparasitic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Chemokine CCL11, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Chemokines, CC, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Chemotactic Factors, Eosinophil, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Diethylcarbamazine, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Eosinophils, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Filaricides, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Onchocerca volvulus, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Onchocerciasis, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Skin Diseases, Parasitic, pubmed-meshheading:10479181-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Eotaxin expression in Onchocerca volvulus-induced dermatitis after topical application of diethylcarbamazine.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Geographic Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. exp2@po.cwru.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.