July 2008

Editorial Board
Published in issue: July 2008
i

Invited review article

Recent advances in genetic analyses of oculocutaneous albinism types 2 and 4
• Tamio Suzuki,
• Yasushi Tomita
Published online: July 12, 2010
p1-9

Regular articles

Anti-apoptotic role of S100A8 in X-ray irradiated keratinocytes
• Young-Sook Lee,
• Kyung-Cheol Sohn,
• Sunhyae Jang,
• ...
• Moon-June Cho,
• Chang Deok Kim,
• Jeung-Hoon Lee
Published online: July 12, 2010
p11-18

Freshly isolated Langerhans cells negatively regulate naïve T cell activation in response to peptide antigen through cell-to-cell contact
• Yasutomo Imai,
• Nobuki Hayashi,
• Koubun Yasuda,
• Hiroko Tsutsui,
• Hitoshi Mizutani,
• Kenji Nakanishi
Published online: July 12, 2010
p19-29

Molecular and clinical characterization in Japanese and Korean patients with Hailey–Hailey disease: Six new mutations in the ATP2C1 gene
• Takahiro Hamada,
• Shunpei Fukuda,
• Sachiko Sakaguchi,
• Shinichiro Yasumoto,
• Soo-Chan Kim,
• Takashi Hashimoto
Published online: July 12, 2010
p31-36

On the effects of topical synthetic pseudoceramides: Comparison of possible keratinocyte toxicities provoked by the pseudoceramides, PC104 and BIO391, and natural ceramides
• Yoshikazu Uchida,
• Walter M. Holleran,
• Peter M. Elias
Published online: July 12, 2010
p37-43

Calcineurin/NFAT-dependent regulation of 230-kDa bullous pemphigoid antigen (BPAG1) gene expression in normal human epidermal keratinocytes
• Takayuki Aizu,
• Katsuto Tamai,
• Hajime Nakano,
• ...
• Yuka Toyomaki,
• Jouni Uitto,
• Daisuke Sawamura
Published online: July 12, 2010
p45-51

Letters to the editor

Modulation of the expression of the FGFR2-IIIb and FGFR2-IIIc molecules in dermatofibroma
• Nevena Skroza,
• Sabrina Rotolo,
• Simona Ceccarelli,
• Ferdinando Romano,
• Daniele Innocenzi,
• Luigi Frati,
• Antonio Angeloni,
• Cinzia Marchese
Published online: July 12, 2010
p53-57

Complete maternal isodisomy causing reduction to homozygosity for a novel LAMB3 mutation in Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa
• Marco Castori,
• Giovanna Floriddia,
• Elisa Pisaneschi,
• Claudia Covaciu,
• Mauro Paradisi,
• Isabella Torrente,
• Daniele Castiglia
Published online: July 12, 2010
p58-61

High 8-dehydrocholesterol level in a typical case of Conradi–Hunermann–Happle syndrome with a novel H76Y missense mutation
• Ayano Umekoji,
• Kazuyoshi Fukai,
• Takeshi Kasama,
• Toshiaki Yokoi,
• Mika Saito,
• Akitoshi Tsuruhara,
• Masamitsu Ishii
Published online: July 12, 2010
p62-65

Vitiligo onset removes congenital nevocellular nevus cells
• Teruki Dainichi,
• Yoichi Moroi,
• Kazunori Urabe,
• Takashi Hashimoto,
• Masutaka Furue
Published online: July 12, 2010
p66-69

Intense pulsed light modulates the expressions of MMP-2, MMP-14 and TIMP-2 in skin dermal fibroblasts cultured within contracted collagen lattices
• Wen-Rou Wong,
• Wen-Ling Shyu,
• Jung-Wei Tsai,
• Kuang-Hung Hsu,
• Hung-Yi Lee,
• Jong-Hwei S. Pang
Published online: July 12, 2010
p70-73

Announcements
Published in issue: July 2008
p74-75