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Severe cutaneous injuries continue to result from exposure to sulfur mustard [bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide; HD] and thermal burns. Microarray analysis was utilized in this study to evaluate transcriptional changes in porcine skin assessing the underlying repair mechanisms of HD and thermal injury involved in wound healing. Four ventral abdominal sites on each of 4 weanling swine were exposed to 400 microL undiluted HD or a heated brass rod (70 degrees C) for 8 minutes and 45-60 seconds, respectively. At 7 days postexposure, skin samples were excised and total RNA was isolated, labeled, and hybridized to Affymetrix GeneChip (Santa Clara, CA, USA) Porcine Genome Arrays (containing 20,201 genes). Based on the gene expression patterns in HD- and thermal-exposed skin at 7 days, the transcriptional profiles do not differ greatly. HD and thermal exposures promoted similar changes in transcription, where 270 and 283 transcripts were increased with HD and thermal exposures, respectively. Both exposures promoted decreases in 317 and 414 transcripts, respectively. Of the significantly increased transcripts, at least 77% were commonly expressed in both HD- and thermal-exposed skin, whereas at least 67% of decreased transcripts were common between both exposure types. Six of the top 10 biological functions were common to HD and thermal injury in which 9 canonical pathways were shared. The present study illustrates the similarities found between HD and thermal injury with respect to transcriptional response and wound healing and identifies specific genes (CXCL2, CXCR4, FGFR2, HMOX1, IGF1, PF4, PLAU, PLAUR, S100A8, SPP1, and TNC) that may be useful as potential therapeutic targets to promote improved wound healing.
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PMID:Transcriptional changes in porcine skin at 7 days following sulfur mustard and thermal burn injury. 1969 9

The aim of this study was to analyse various gene expression profiles of muscle tissue during normoxia, ischaemia and after reperfusion in human muscle free flaps, to gain an understanding of the occurring regulatory, inflammatory and apoptotic processes on a cellular and molecular basis. Eleven Caucasian patients with soft tissue defects needing coverage with microsurgical free muscle flaps were included in this study. In all patients, the muscle samples were taken from free myocutaneous flaps. The first sample was taken before induction of ischaemia in normoxia (I), another one after ischaemia (II), and the last one was taken after reperfusion (III). The samples were analysed using DNA-microarray, real-time-quantitative-PCR and immunohistochemistry. DNA-microarray analysis detected multiple, differentially regulated genes when comparing the different groups (I-III) with statistical significance. Comparing ischaemia (II) versus normoxia (I) educed 13 genes and comparing reperfusion (III) versus ischaemia (II) educed 19 genes. The comparison of reperfusion (III) versus normoxia (I) yielded 100 differentially regulated genes. Real-time-quantitative-PCR confirmed the results of the DNA-microarrays for a subset of four genes (CASP8, IL8, PLAUR and S100A8). This study shows that ischaemia and reperfusion induces alterations on the gene expression level in human muscle free flaps. Data may suggest that the four genes CASP8, IL8, PLAUR and S100A8 are of great importance in this context. We could not confirm the DNA-microarry and real-time-quantitative-PCR results on the protein level. Finally, these findings correspond with the surgeon's clinical experience that the accepted times of ischaemia, generally up to 90 min., are not sufficient to induce pathophysiological processes, which can ultimately lead to flap loss. When inflammatory and apoptotic proteins are expressed at high levels, flap damage might occur and flap loss is likely. The sole expression on mRNA level might explain why flap loss is unlikely.
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PMID:Gene expression analysis of ischaemia and reperfusion in human microsurgical free muscle tissue transfer. 2034 46

Gene expression analysis for EPHA2 (EPH receptor A2), EPHB2 (EPH receptor B2), S100A9 (S100 calcium binding protein A9), PBEF(nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase), LILRB2 (leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor, subfamily B (with TM and ITIM domains), member 2), PLAUR (plasminogen activator, urokinase receptor), LTB (lymphotoxin beta (TNF superfamily, member 3)), WNT5A (wingless-type MMTV integration site family, member 5A) has been conducted using real-time polymerase chain reaction in specimens affected by psoriasis versus visually intact skin in 18 patients. It was revealed that the expression of the nine examined genes was upregulated in the affected by psoriasis compared to visually intact skin specimens. The highest expression was observed for S100A9, S100AS, PBEF, WNT5A2, and EPHB2 genes. S100A9 and S100A8 gene expression in the affected by psoriasis skin was 100-fold higher versus visually intact skin while PBEF, WNT5A, and EPHB2 gene expression was upregulated more than five-fold. We suggested that the high expression of these genes might be associated with the state of the pathological process in psoriasis. Moreover, the transcriptional activity of these genes might serve a molecular indicator of the efficacy of treatment in psoriasis.
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PMID:[Expression of bioinformatically identified genes in skin of psoriasis patients]. 2547 98