The SPIN works in close collaboration with National Representatives, gathering the representatives of the national psoriasis groups who participate to the network. Since 2018, our network includes also key opinion leaders on atopic dermatitis at the national level.
SPIN National Representatives are in a privileged position to relay the information about SPIN’s projects, surveys and events at the national level. They have kindly accepted to be the national contact for all kind of collaborations, especially to promote the development of the network’s activities and the exchanges on psoriasis and atopic dermatitis all around the world. Each representative is responsible for the coordination of international collaborations between his or her country and the others, and of course for the participation to the projects around psoriasis and atopic dermatitis at the national level.
SPIN National Representatives will be solicited for input in the organisation of the scientific programme of the SPIN Congress taking place every three years. During the Congress, the National Representatives shall meet to foresee the next Congress and discuss about its scientific organization.
Please find here below the list of SPIN National Representatives (this list shall be updated regularly):
PSORIASIS
Aomar AMMAR-KHODJA - Algeria
Graciela Pellerano - Argentina
Annika Smith - Australia
Patrick BRUNNER- Austria
Mohammad SAMIUL HUQ- Bangladesh
Uladzimir ADASKEVICH - Belarus
Michel DE LA BRASSINNE - Belgium
Félix ATADOKPEDE - Benin
Juan Carlos DIEZ DE MEDINA - Bolivia
Asja PROHIC - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luna AZULAY - Brazil
Nikolai TSANKOV - Bulgaria
Fatou BARRO TRAORE - Burkina Faso
Christine MADENGUE - Cameroon
Chih-ho HONG - Canada
Claudia DE LA CRUZ - Chile
Min ZHENG - China
Chih-Hung LEE - Chinese Taipei
Cesar GONZALEZ A. - Colombia
Laura ALVAREZ MORALES - Costa Rica
Abdoulaye SANGHARE - Cote d’Ivoire
Romana CEOVIC - Croatia
Orestes BLANCO G. - Cuba
Jana HERCOGOVA - Czech Republic
Robert GNIADECKI - Denmark
Lars IVERSEN - Denmark
Alexandra ESPINAL - Dominican Republic
Emad ELGAMAL - Egypt
Leana QUINTANILLA - El Salvador
Jaime MARTINEZ LOPEZ - El Salvador
Külli KINGO- Estonia
Tarja MALKONEN - Finland
Carle PAUL - France
Sophie CONIQUET - Gabon
Nino CHIJAVADZE - Georgia
Tsira LEONIDZE - Georgia
Matthias AUGUSTIN - Germany
Christina ANTONIOU - Greece
Mohamed CISSE - Guinea
Ligia RAMOS - Honduras
Patricia MEJIAS - Honduras
Péter Holló - Hungary
Jon Hjaltalin OLAFSSON - Iceland
Alur S. KUMAR - India
Benny E. WIRYADI- Indonesia
Omid ZARGARI - Iran
Brian KIRBY - Ireland
Lev PAVLOVSKY - Israel
Luigi NALDI - Italy
Hidemi NAKAGAWA - Japan
Laith AKKASH - Jordan
Joo Heung Lee- Korea
Nawaf AL MUTAIRI - Kuwait
Andris RUBINS - Latvia
Abdul Ghani KIBBI - Lebanon
Gamal A. DUWEB - Libya
Skaidra VALIUKEVICIENE - Lithuania
Emilija MANASIEVSKA - Macedonia
Azura Mohd AFFANDI- Malaysia
Ousmane FAYE - Mali
Michael BOFFA - Malta
Mamadou BALL - Mauritania
Boris NEDELCIUC - Moldova
Fatima Zahra MERNISSI- Morocco
Phyllis I. SPULS - Netherlands
Jorge NEIRA - Nicaragua
Ousmane KONATE - Niger
Abel Nze ONUNU - Nigeria
Riad MASHAL - Palestine
Giuliana CASTRO - Peru
Maria Lorna FREZ - Philippines
Jacek SZEPIETOWSKI - Poland
Hugo OLIVEIRA - Portugal
Hassan RIAD - Qatar
George-Sorin TIPLICA - Romania
Nikolay POTEKAEV- Russia
Serge SKREK- Russia
Iqbal A. BUKHARI - Saudi Arabia
Fatimata LY - Senegal
Ljiljana MEDENICA - Serbia
Colin THENG - Singapore
Slavomir URBANCEK - Slovakia
Tomaz LUNDER - Slovenia
Luis PUIG - Spain
Enikö Pivarcsi Sonkoly - Sweden
Antonios Kolios - Switzerland
Fouz HASSAN - Syria
Pravit ASAWANONDA - Thailand
Vincent Pitche - Togo
Nejib DOSS - Tunisia
Mehmet Ali GURER - Turkey
Fayza AL ALI- United Arab Emirates
Christopher GRIFFITHS - United Kingdom
Mark LEBWOHL - United States of America
Oleksandr LITUS - Ukraine
Carlos CARMONA - Uruguay
Erika PAEZ - Venezuela
Alfredo LANDER - Venezuela
Aiman ALSHAMI - Yemen
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
Warren WEIGHTMAN - Australia
Natalia HERNANDEZ - Colombia
Krisztián GASPAR - Hungary
Marius RADEMAKER - New Zealand
Margarida GONCALO - Portugal
Carolina MARTINASKOVA - Slovakia
Esther Serra-Baldrich - Spain
Lisa WEIBEL - Switzerland
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Recent publications on Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis
on Psoriasis
Conformational dynamics in interleukin 17A and 17F functional complexes is a key determinant of receptor A affinity and specificity.
Cytokine.
2021 Jun , 142:155476.
The proinflammatory cytokines IL-17A and IL-17F have been identified as key drivers of a range of human inflammatory diseases, such as psoriasis, which has led to several therapeutic antibodies targeted at IL-17A. The two cytokines have been shown to tightly associate as functional homo and hetero dimers, which induce signalling via the formation of a cell surface signalling complex with a single copy of both IL-17RA and IL-17RC. Striking differences in affinity have been observed for (...)
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Protective Effects of Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Wrapped Fullerene Against Nitric Oxide/Peroxynitrite-Induced Cellular Injury in Human Skin Keratinocytes.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol.
2021 Sep 01, 21, (9):4579-4585.
Excess ultraviolet (UV) exposure accelerates skin inflammation, melanogenesis, wrinkle formation, photoaging, and carcinogenesis through oxidative stress and deoxyribonucleic acid damage. These deleterious effects to skin are closely associated with UV-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) produced via nitric oxide (NO) generation. RNS are known to be responsible for various skin disorders, such as erythema, melanin production, reduced barrier function, (...)
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Catalpol ameliorates psoriasis-like phenotypes via SIRT1 mediated suppression of NF-κB and MAPKs signaling pathways.
Bioengineered.
2021 Dec , 12, (1):183-195.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects approximately 2% of worldwide population, and causing long-term troubles to the patients. Therefore, it is urgent to develop safe and effective therapeutic drugs. Catalpol is a natural iridoid glucoside, that has several remarkable pharmacological effects, however, whether catalpol can alleviated psoriasis has not been explored. The goal of the present work is to study the role of catalpol in psoriasis in vivo and in vitro. (...)
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on Atopic Dermatitis
Viral metagenomic identification of a novel anellovirus in blood sample of a child with atopic dermatitis.
J Med Virol.
2021 Jun , 93, (6):4038-4041.
Here, using viral metagenomics, a novel anellovirus with strain name HuAV-zj-ad1 was detected in blood sample from a child with atopic dermatitis. The complete genome sequence of HuAV-zj-ad1 was determined and fully characterized. The circular genome of HuAV-zj-ad1 is 2841 nt in length and includes four polyprotein ORFs. Phylogenetic analysis and pairwise sequence comparisons based on the amino acid sequences of ORF1, ORF2, ORF3, ORF4 indicated that HuAV-zj-ad1 belonged to a novel species (...)
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Dupilumab therapy for patients with refractory eosinophilic otitis media associated with bronchial asthma.
Auris Nasus Larynx.
2021 Jun , 48, (3):353-360.
Eosinophilic otitis media (EOM) is an intractable otitis media mostly associated with bronchial asthma. Dupilumab, an anti-interleukin (IL)-4 receptor (R)α, is effective and has been approved for use in patients with moderate to severe bronchial asthma, atopic dermatitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis, whose diseases are not controlled by previous treatments including other molecular targeted drugs. We aimed to assess efficacy of dupilumab in three EOM patients with (...)
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Methicillin-resistant from infected skin lesions present several virulence genes and are associated with the CC30 in Brazilian children with atopic dermatitis.
Virulence.
2021 12 , 12, (1):260-269.
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease and colonization by may affect up to 100% of these patients. Virulent and resistant isolates can worsen AD patient clinical condition and jeopardize the treatment. We aimed to detect virulence genes and to evaluate the biofilm production of isolates from infected skin lesions of children with AD. Methicillin resistance was detected by phenotypic and molecular tests and the virulence genes were detected by PCR. Biofilm formation (...)
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