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Objective:To investigate clinical efficacy of narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) irradiation around vitiliginous lesions in the treatment of refractory vitiligo.Methods:A total of 126 patients with refractory vitiligo were retrospectively collected from Department of Dermatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University from June 2019 to November 2020. The patients were treated with NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions after partial covering (perilesional irradiation group) , or conventional NB-UVB irradiation (conventional irradiation group) , twice a week for 3 consecutive months. After the treatment, the efficacy was evaluated. By using the propensity score method, the lesions in the 2 groups were matched at a ratio of 1∶1. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses and stratified analysis were used to analyze the clinical efficacy of NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions in the treatment of refractory vitiligo.Results:Totally, there were 420 skin lesions in the perilesional irradiation group and 257 in the conventional irradiation group, and 190 lesions were enrolled into each group by propensity-score matching. Before and after the matching, the response rates were both significantly higher in the perilesional irradiation group (71.9%, 67.9%, respectively) than in the conventional irradiation group (31.9%, 30.0%, respectively, both P < 0.05) . After the propensity-score matching, both univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses showed significant differences in the efficacy between the perilesional irradiation group and conventional irradiation group ( OR = 4.9, 95% CI: 3.2, 7.6, P < 0.001; OR = 12.0, 95% CI: 6.5, 22.3, P < 0.001, respectively) . Vitiliginous lesions were classified according to hair types and irradiation methods: before the matching, there were 187 vitiliginous lesions with white hairs treated with the conventional irradiation and 246 treated with the perilesional irradiation, and there were 70 vitiliginous lesions with black hairs treated with the conventional irradiation and 174 treated with the perilesional irradiation; after the matching, 140 vitiliginous lesions with white hairs and 50 with black hairs were enrolled into each radiation group. Stratified analysis showed that the response rates of vitiliginous lesions with white hairs were significantly higher in the perilesional irradiation group (77.6%, 72.8%, respectively) than in the conventional irradiation group before and after the matching (19.3%, 20.7%, respectively, both P < 0.01) ; for the vitiliginous lesions with black hairs, there was no significant difference in the response rate between the 2 groups ( P = 0.908) . Conclusion:The efficacy of NB-UVB irradiation around vitiliginous lesions is superior to the conventional irradiation in the treatment of refractory vitiligo, especially vitiliginous lesions with white hairs.
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Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a platelet concentrate isolated from the autologous whole blood after centrifugation,and its optimal working concentration is 4-7 times that of the blood platelet count in the whole blood.After the activation by thrombin or calcium chloride,platelets can release various growth factors,which can promote hemostasis,wound healing and angiogenesis.Considered as a kind of low-cost and safe therapy,it has been widely applied to the repair of soft tissue and hard tissue injuries.PRP has also been widely applied to dermatology,including hair loss,skin rejuvenation,scar repair and wound healing.This review summarizes the application of PRP in dermatology.
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Objective To evaluate the effect of the treatment with low-concentration hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on the adhesive function of and autophagy in human melanocytes,and to screen long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) related to autophagy.Methods Melanocytes were isolated from foreskins of healthy males after circumcision,and subjected to cultivation.Melanocytes at exponential growth phase were divided into 3 groups:control group receiving no treatment,H2O2 group treated with 400 μ mol/L H2O2,and H2O2 + NAC group pretreated with 4 mmol/L NAC for 2 hours followed by the treatment with 400 μmol/L H2O2.After 5-day treatment,immunofluorescence study was performed to determine the expression of Ecadherin,microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)and p62,and Western blot analysis to determine the expression of autophagy-related protein LC3 and p62.Cell structures and autophagosomes were observed by transmission electron microscopy,and autophagy-related lncRNAs were screened using gene chip technology.Statistical analysis was done with Graphpad Prism 6 software using one-way analysis of variance for comparison among groups,and Tukey's test for multiple comparisons.Results Under the confocal microscopy,the H2O2 group showed significantly decreased fluorescence intensity of E-cadherin and LC3 in the melanocytes and decreased number of autophagosomes in melanocytes,but significantly increased fluorescence intensity of p62 compared with the control group and H2O2 + NAC group.Western blot analysis showed that the LC3-Ⅱ/LC3-Ⅰ ratio in the melanocytes was significantly lower in the H2O2 group (0.604 ± 0.012) than in the control group (1.200 ± 0.081,q =7.718,P ＜ 0.01) and H2O2 + NAC group (1.017 ± 0.062,q =5.076,P ＜ 0.05),while the p62/β-actin ratio in the melanocytes was significantly higher in the H2O2 group (0.881 ± 0.079) than in the control group (0.456 ± 0.121,q =4.847,P ＜ 0.05) and H2O2 + NAC group (0.492 ± 0.049,q =4.439,P ＜ 0.05).There were no significant differences in the LC3-Ⅱ/LC3-Ⅰ ratio or p62/β-actin ratio between the H2O2 + NAC group and control group (P ＞ 0.05).Gene chip technology showed that 18 autophagy-related lncRNAs were associated with premature senescence of melanocytes and differentially expressed in the H2O2 group compared with the control group,and the autophagy-related lncRNA NONHSAT190308.1 (＞ 10-fold increase) was screened out.Conclusion Lowconcentration H2O2 can decrease the expression of E-cadherin and the level of autophagy in melanocytes,and can up-regulate the expression of autophagy-associated lncRNA NONHSAT190308.1.