In situ expression of interleukin-17 in the skin

This work shows that the cytokine interleukin (IL)-17, which is an important messenger that mediates signals from immune cells to epithelial cells, is constantly expressed in a very disease-specific manner within the 30 most common histologically diagnosable skin diseases. The surprising finding is that not only T cells, as already known, but also granulocytes are cellular sources of IL-17. This has direct clinical and therapeutic consequences.

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Dr. med. Mattias Fischer-Stabauer studied medicine at the two Munich universities until 2006 and then completed his training as a specialist in general medicine in Papenburg and Neuburg/Danube. He has been running his own general practice in Neuburg/Donau since 2012.