image: Representative XtremeCT images of the femur and vertebra of psoriasis patients compared to healthy controls. Psoriasis patients exhibit bone loss with reduced bone formation and increased IL-17A. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 16, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ö. Uluçkan at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues was titled, "Chronic skin inflammation leads to bone loss by IL-17-mediated inhibition of Wnt signaling in osteoblasts." view more
Credit: Ö. Uluçkan <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)