Publications by authors named "Zudong Meng"

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  • Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with no complete cure, and this study aims to delve deeper into its molecular mechanisms to better understand its development.
  • Researchers analyzed gene expression data from psoriasis patients using R software to identify key differentially expressed genes and performed various analyses, including Drug Target Prediction.
  • The study identified 14 key genes related to immune and metabolic pathways, suggesting potential drug targets and providing insights that could lead to new treatment approaches for psoriasis.
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  • - Vunakizumab, an anti-interleukin-17A antibody, is being tested for its effectiveness in treating moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in a phase 3 trial involving 690 participants.
  • - The trial found that those receiving vunakizumab showed significantly better improvement in psoriasis severity scores at week 12 compared to the placebo group, with maintained efficacy through week 52.
  • - While the treatment showed good results and tolerability, the study was limited to Chinese subjects and didn't include an active comparator for broader context. !*
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To determine the efficacy of supramolecular salicylic acid combined with doxycycline on acne, totally 70 patients with acne treated in our dermatology department from May 2020 to May 2021 were enrolled and randomized (1:1) into control or experimental groups using the random number table method. The control group was given doxycycline for oral administration while the experimental group was given oral doxycycline combined with supramolecular salicylic acid for topical administration. The overall effective rate of treatment was significantly higher in the experimental group versus control group (97.

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To evaluate the efficacy of topical 30% salicylic acid plus minocycline in moderate to severe acne. One hundred patients with moderate to severe acne from February 2020 to February 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. They were assigned (1:1) to receive either topical 30% salicylic acid plus minocycline (combination group) or minocycline (mono therapy group).

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Background And Purpose: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, characterized by pruritus and impaired skin barrier function. The pathology of AD involves in immune dysfunction and epidermal barrier disruption. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are found to be associated with AD, and play a role in the immunological abnormalities and dysfunctional skin barrier.

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Background: Ustekinumab, as a monoclonal antibody against interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-23, gets approved in China since 2019, therefore fewstudies report the application of ustekinumab in treating Chinese psoriasis patients in the real clinical settings until now.

Aims: Thus, this study aimed to evaluate treatment efficacy, treatment response-related factors, and safety of ustekinumab in treating Chinese psoriasis patients.

Materials And Methods: Totally, 72 moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis patients who underwent ustekinumab treatment were analyzed.

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Background: Dual specificity phosphatase 22 (DUSP22) plays an important role in the regulation of immune and inflammation, but its correlation with clinical features and treatment outcome in psoriasis patients is still unclear. This study was to investigate the longitudinal change of DUSP22 with time, as well as its association with disease activity and treatment response in psoriasis patients.

Methods: Totally, 120 psoriasis patients, 50 patients with other skin inflammations as disease controls (DCs), and 50 health controls (HCs) were recruited.

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Psoriasis is a skin disorder that is classed as an autoimmune disease. It is characterized by excessive proliferation, abnormal migration and differentiation of keratinocytes, as well as inflammatory cell infiltration. Circular RNAs (circRNAs/circ) have been reported to play an important role in several aspects of psoriasis.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious problem for drug anti-viral efficacy in combatting the cytokine storm triggered by SARS-CoV-2. From dermato-epidemiological studies conducted on psoriatic and other rheumatological patients, IL-17 inhibitors seem to attenuate or even prevent the cytokine storm and thus ICU referral. Furthermore, both in-vivo and in-vitro experiments suggest that IL-17 plays a key role in SARS-CoV-2 infection progression.

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Background: This study aimed to explore the correlation of circulating inflammatory cytokines' levels with treatment response to etanercept (ETN) treatment in psoriasis patients.

Methods: 97 moderate-to-severe plaque-psoriasis patients were continuously recruited in this prospective cohort study, and all patients received ETN treatment. Serum samples were collected before and at 6 months (M6) after treatment, and nine inflammatory cytokines expressions were detected by enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay.

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Contact urticaria is recognized as the wheal and flare reaction at a site from direct contact with a chemical or protein agent. Ongoing studies have proposed that gene silencing may have a promising future in finding optimal treatment of a variety of disease; hence, the aim of the study was to investigate the effect of RNA interference-mediated E-selectin ( SELE) gene silencing on cell adhesion molecule expression and on cell-cell adhesion in vascular endothelial cells (VECs) in a mouse model of immunologic contact urticaria (ICU). Following the successful establishment of mouse models of ICU induced by antidinitrophenol immunoglobulin E (IgE) combining 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene challenge, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunohistochemistry were used to measure the levels of IgE, interleukin 4 (IL-4), interferon-γ (IFN-γ), and histamine as well as the positive expression rate of SELE, respectively.

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