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      Expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in the skin of patients with systemic scleroderma.

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          The expression and tissue distribution of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in skin biopsies from 12 patients with systemic (SSc) and localized (LS) scleroderma was studied and compared to the biopsies from patients with lupus erythematosus (LE) and normal individuals. In normal human skin ICAM-1 expression was restricted to the vascular endothelium, infiltrating mononuclear cells (MNC), and to few individual keratinocytes. In the inflammatory stage of SSc, however, the expression of ICAM-1 was dramatically increased at the site of MNC infiltrates and could also be detected on fibroblast-like cells lying well apart from these infiltrates in the deep dermis. In contrast, in LS ICAM-1 was expressed mainly at the sites of MNC infiltrates. In LE ICAM-1 expression was confined to the keratinocytes, endothelial cells, and mononuclear cells in the upper parts of the dermis. Analysis of serial tissue sections from patients with SSc demonstrated also colocalization of staining of ICAM-1 around blood vessels with LFA-1-positive lymphocytes. Increased expression of ICAM-1 in the dermis of patients with SSc may represent an important mechanism by which MNC become localized and retained at a site of connective tissue inflammation, leading to the activation of fibroblasts.

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          Journal
          J. Invest. Dermatol.
          The Journal of investigative dermatology
          0022-202X
          0022-202X
          Oct 1991
          : 97
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Dermatology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany.
          Article
          S0022-202X(91)90305-A
          1682392
          22750c47-ac67-4085-8b6d-3413797ae129
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