ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Successful Treatment of Refractory Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria with Stapokibart After Omalizumab Failure: A Case Report.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of transitioning from omalizumab to dupilumab in chronic spontaneous urticaria patients with inadequate response to omalizumab.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2025Article
- Is there a role of genetics in acute and chronic urticaria-A systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical and translational allergy · 2025Article
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- COVID-19 Clinical Features and Outcome in Italian Patients Treated with Biological Drugs Targeting Type 2 Inflammation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Research progress in the pathogenesis of chronic urticaria.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2023Article
- Gut Microbiome Composition in Patients with Chronic Urticaria: A Review of Current Evidence and Data.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Identification of Survival-Related Genes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Based on Cytogenetically Normal AML Samples Using Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis.Disease markers · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: The immunopathogenesis of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is poorly understood, but recent research suggests that patients can be divided into autoallergic and autoimmune subtypes. Given that not all patients can be controlled with current treatment regimens, including anti-IgE monoclonal antibodies, a better understanding of the immune pathways involved in CSU may enable the repurposing of monoclonal antibodies used for other dermatologic diseases (e.g., Th2 and Th17 inhibitors). Therefore, we investigated the implicated immune cells and pathways by reanalyzing publicly available transcriptomic data. Methods: Microarray data of CSU and healthy control (HC) skin and blood were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GSE72542, GSE57178). Differentially expressed genes were defined as a false discovery rate <0.05 and a |log Results: Th2 (IL-4/13 signaling) and Th17-related (IL-17/23 signaling) pathways were upregulated in lesional compared to non-lesional and HC samples. In non-lesional versus lesional samples, CIBERSORT analysis revealed increased regulatory T-cells (Treg) and resting mast cells. xCell analysis established that Th1 and Th2 scores were not significantly different between lesional and HC samples. However, Th2 scores in both lesional and non-lesional samples correlated positively with disease severity. Few differentially expressed genes and pathways were identified between CSU and HC blood samples. Conclusion: Our results support the involvement of Th2 and Th17-related genes and pathways in CSU. Th2 scores associate with disease severity, which indicates the clinical relevance of these findings. Increased resting mast cell and Treg scores in non-lesional samples may suggest local suppression of wheal formation. Moreover, disease activity seemed to be restricted to the skin as there were limited findings from blood. Larger studies using next-generation sequencing will be helpful to confirm these results.
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