9 citations
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October 2025 in “MedComm” This review discusses the development and clinical progression of PROTAC technology for targeted protein degradation, highlighting its potential to address previously "undruggable" targets but reports no new clinical results.
November 2025 in “Journal of Medicinal Chemistry” This review outlines advances in topical PROTACs for localized protein degradation, focusing on AH-001 and GT20029 for skin conditions, but presents no new clinical trial results.
24 citations
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April 2012 in “Developmental Biology” This animal study found that dermal papilla cells in hair follicles of chimeric mice can originate from various fibroblasts in the skin, challenging assumptions about their specific lineage.
15 citations
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November 2024 in “Pharmaceutics” This review discusses how recent advancements in computational and lab-based methods have enhanced peptide drug discovery, noting the efficiency and cost benefits over traditional approaches and the potential for targeting difficult protein interactions, including protein degradation using proteolysis-targeting chimeras.
4 citations
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June 2025 in “MedComm” This review detailed the significant progress and challenges in the design and application of PROTACs, a novel class of cancer therapeutics, highlighting their clinical trials, design complexities, and the role of artificial intelligence in improving their efficacy and selectivity for cancer therapy.
June 2026 in “Acta Pharmacologica Sinica” This review highlights how integrating medicinal chemistry with delivery science could transform the limitations of PROTACs—such as poor solubility and low cell permeability—into strengths, potentially advancing these compounds from experimental stages to clinical applications by optimizing their delivery and enhancing therapeutic efficacy.
April 2026 in “Future Medicinal Chemistry” This article discusses the impact of PROTACs technology in transforming drug discovery with its novel degradation mechanism, but it reports no new experimental findings.
44 citations
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May 2023 in “MedComm” This review highlights the potential of PROTAC technology in drug discovery for previously undruggable targets, particularly in cancer therapy, while emphasizing the urgent need to discover more E3 ligase recruiters to optimize targeted protein degradation.
33 citations
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September 1990 in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” This study found that a 671-base pair promoter sequence from the ultra-high-sulfur keratin gene is sufficient to direct tissue-specific and development-specific expression of a reporter gene during hair growth in transgenic mice.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This paper reviews the development and implementation of CAR-T cell therapy as a significant advancement in treating pediatric hematological malignancies, particularly for children with relapsed or chemotherapy-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia, offering renewed remission prospects where conventional methods are ineffective.
3 citations
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November 2023 in “Pediatric Transplantation” This study reported that among five children and adolescents who developed new-onset atopic dermatitis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, topical therapy and skin care improved their skin condition and atopic dermatitis severity scores, potentially reducing the need for excessive immunosuppressive therapy.
66 citations
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April 1995 in “The journal of cell biology/The Journal of cell biology” In this study, researchers reported that a keratinocyte growth factor-Ig fusion protein could specifically detect and localize KGFRs in epithelial tissues, suggesting a method for histochemical detection of growth factor receptors.
40 citations
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July 2023 in “Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics” This review discusses the progress and challenges of targeted protein degradation therapies, highlighting the increasing number of degraders in cancer clinical trials and the limited diversity in targeted proteins, primarily focusing on those employing CRL4CRBN as the E3 ligase.
6 citations
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April 2025 in “Communications Biology” In this study, researchers used a murine model of irritant contact dermatitis to reveal that hair follicle regions serve as key sites for neutrophil transepidermal migration, which requires MMP-9 expression stimulated by dermal monocytes.
This study demonstrated that de novo designed bifunctional proteins can target and degrade BCL-xL, leading to cell apoptosis, suggesting a new approach to targeted protein degradation therapy.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This pilot clinical study introduces DEC cells as a novel therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, confirming safety and efficacy in seven patients up to 24 months post-treatment.
91 citations
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December 2006 in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” In this study, researchers found that hair follicle orientation in Fz6 −/− mice is disrupted and that hair may reorient itself over time through a self-organized process.
December 2024 in “Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine” This review examines the role and significance of next-generation sequencing technologies in forensic identification and other forensic applications, but reports no new findings.
949 citations
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January 2001 in “Cell” This study demonstrated that multipotent stem cells in adult mice whisker follicles migrate to produce whisker growth, and that this process requires precise control of stem cell trafficking.
208 citations
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December 2003 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that dermal papilla and peribulbar dermal sheath cup cells in mice can both induce hair follicle formation, suggesting they may have similar functional roles in hair growth.
24 citations
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March 2010 in “Journal of Cellular Biochemistry” This study found that an inter-hair-follicle blood vessel network, originating from ND-GFP-expressing stem cells, contributes to angiogenesis in skin transplants and wound healing in ND-GFP transgenic mice.
8 citations
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March 2015 in “International Journal of Oncology” This study successfully established Tsc2-deficient embryonic stem cells from Eker rats and found these cells have distinct gene expression compared to non-mutant cells, which could help identify new therapeutic targets for TSC-related pathogenesis.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This presentation discusses the importance of fluid therapy in critical care, reviewing current data, guidelines, and emerging technologies to help clinicians make informed decisions about fluid type and volume for treating critically ill patients. Results are not reported in this abstract.
Infliximab was effective in treating a scalp condition that did not respond to other treatments.
2 citations
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October 2018 in “Springer eBooks” Cancer treatments can cause skin-related side effects that may affect patient quality of life and require changes in treatment.
74 citations
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January 2013 in “Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy” This review discusses recent advances in hair follicle biology, regeneration, and tissue engineering, highlighting emerging therapeutic opportunities, and reports no new experimental results.
51 citations
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January 2024 in “Nanoscale” This review highlights recent advancements in using nanotechnology to improve the function and delivery of PROTAC drugs, despite existing challenges like low solubility and poor permeability, aiming to enhance their potential in disease treatment.
17 citations
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January 2010 in “Acta Dermato Venereologica” This report details a case of a 43-year-old woman developing yellowish papular eruptions alongside typical acneiform skin reactions on her cheeks and chest following a switch from cetuximab to panitumumab treatment.
April 2026 in “Psychiatry Neurology and Medical Psychology” This study found that women with mixed alopecia exhibited significantly higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress compared to those with metabolic alopecia, with these emotional disturbances closely linked to heightened mental maladaptation.
2 citations
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January 2026 in “Frontiers in Endocrinology” This review discusses the impaired functionality of regulatory T cells in the pancreas during the development of Type 1 diabetes, highlighting their role in disease pathogenesis, potential of Treg-based therapies, and challenges in clinical applications.