Dysfunctional autophagy plays a crucial role in generating epidermal barrier defects (IMAGE)

Juntendo University Research Promotion Center

Dysfunctional autophagy plays a crucial role in generating epidermal barrier defects

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Dysfunctional autophagy plays a crucial role in generating epidermal barrier defects that sustain chronic inflammation in AD. hBD-3 could be an autophagy activator and a new approach to the treatment of AD through improvement of disrupted skin barrier via AhR-related autophagy activation

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Juntendo University

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