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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
卷 134, 期 8, 页码 2221-2230出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2014.152
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81130032, 81373844]
Vitiligo melanocytes possess higher susceptibility to oxidative insults. Consistent with this, impairment of the antioxidant defense system has been reported to be involved in the onset and progression of vitiligo. Our previous study showed that the nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 antioxidant response element (Nrf2-ARE) pathway and its downstream antioxidant enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) are crucial for melanocytes to cope with H2O2-induced oxidative damage. Here, we sought to determine whether the diminished Nrf2-ARE activity that contributes to reduced downstream antioxidant enzymes and increased oxidative stress could be the reason why melanocytes are more vulnerable to vitiligo. We found that vitiligo melanocytes exhibited hypersensitivity to H2O2-induced oxidative injury because of reduced Nrf2 nuclear translocation and transcriptional activity, which led to decreased HO-1 expression and aberrant redox balance. Moreover, we also found that the level of serum HO-1 was significantly decreased and that of IL-2 was markedly increased in 113 vitiligo patients when compared with healthy controls. These data demonstrate that impaired activation of Nrf2 under oxidative stress could result in decreased expression of antioxidant enzymes and increased death of vitiligo melanocytes.
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