Differential dermal expression of CCL17 and CCL18 in tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy.

• Main Authors: William R Berrington (Author), Chhatra B Kunwar (Author), Kapil Neupane (Author), Susan J F van den Eeden (Author), James C Vary (Author), Glenna J Peterson (Author), Richard D Wells (Author), Annemieke Geluk (Author), Deanna A Hagge (Author), Thomas R Hawn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leprosy is characterized by polar clinical, histologic and immunological presentations. Previous immunologic studies of leprosy polarity were limited by the repertoire of cytokines known at the time.We used a candidate gene approach to measure mRNA levels in skin biopsies from leprosy lesions. mRNA...