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Effectiveness of PUVA vs. UVA1 phototherapy in the treatment of morphea patients
Introduction Morphea (localized scleroderma) is an inflammatory connective tissue disease, characterized by immune system dysfunction, vasculopathy and skin fibrosing.
Anna Malewska-Woźniak +2 more
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Inactivated whole-cell vaccines present a full repertoire of antigens to the immune system. Formalin treatment, a standard method for microbial inactivation, can modify or destroy protein antigenic epitopes.
Marlena M. Westcott +6 more
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Photo-activated psoralen binds the ErbB2 catalytic kinase domain, blocking ErbB2 signaling and triggering tumor cell apoptosis. [PDF]
Photo-activation of psoralen with UVA irradiation, referred to as PUVA, is used in the treatment of proliferative skin disorders. The anti-proliferative effects of PUVA have been largely attributed to psoralen intercalation of DNA, which upon UV ...
Wenle Xia +8 more
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Considering its effects, side effects, and contraindications, phototherapy is a treatment option that can be used in patients who do not respond to topical treatments, suffer side effects, or have diffuse lesions.
Melih Akyol
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Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory proliferative skin disease involving various types of chemokines regulating immune cell migration, localization, and activation. Bath psoralen plus UVA (PUVA) treatment is an established phototherapy for psoriasis, but
Yoshifumi Kanayama +3 more
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Phototherapy combined with systemic agents for mycosis fungoides [PDF]
The choice of tactics for managing a patient with mycosis fungoides is determined by the stage of the disease. In the early stages of mycosis fungoides, a treatment approach using external therapy and various ultraviolet irradiation spectra (UVB-311 nm ...
Anastasiia A. Vorontsova +1 more
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Background: Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, immune-mediated, debilitating skin disease affecting approximately 2%–3% of the global population.
Saikat Banerjee +3 more
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Subungual Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Psoriasis
Subungual squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare malignant tumour with an indolent course and unknown aetiology. It is usually misdiagnosed as a benign lesion, resulting in delayed treatment.
Sherif Monib, Kevin Seebah
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