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Psoriatic mesenchymal stem cells demonstrate an enhanced ability to differentiate into vascular endothelial cells Volume 28, issue 5, September-October 2018

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1 Shanxi Key Laboratory of Stem Cell for Immunological Dermatosis, Institute of Dermatology, Taiyuan City Centre Hospital, No. 1 Dong San Dao Xiang, Jiefang Road, Taiyuan 030009, Shanxi Province, China
2 Department of Dermatology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, No. 15 Changle Road West, Xi’an, 710032, Shanxi Province, China
3 Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, affecting nearly 2-3% of the world's population [1]. Recently, there has been increasing interest in the pathophysiological characteristics of dermal vascular proliferation in psoriasis. Neovascularization is one of the most important pathological changes observed in the dermis affected by psoriatic lesions [2], and several studies have suggested that psoriasis is closely related to the abnormal proliferation of blood vessels [3]. Mesenchymal stem [...]