医学
精密医学
银屑病
背景(考古学)
个性化医疗
人口
皮肤病科
病理
生物信息学
生物
环境卫生
古生物学
作者
Benedikt Hindelang,T. Nau,Ludwig Englert,Andrei Berezhnoi,Felix Lauffer,Ulf Darsow,Tilo Biedermann,Kilian Eyerich,Juan Aguirre,Vasilis Ntziachristos
出处
期刊:Science Translational Medicine
[American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)]
日期:2022-05-11
卷期号:14 (644)
被引量:22
标识
DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.abm8059
摘要
Psoriasis is a widespread inflammatory skin disease affecting about 2% of the general population. Recently, treatments that specifically target key proinflammatory cytokines driving the disease have been developed to complement conventional therapies with unspecific antiproliferative or anti-inflammatory effects. Efficient monitoring of treatment efficacy in the context of precision medicine and the assessment of new therapeutics require accurate noninvasive readouts of disease progression. However, characterization of psoriasis treatment remains subjective based on visual and palpatory clinical assessment of features observed on the skin surface. We hypothesized that optoacoustic (photoacoustic) mesoscopy could offer label-free assessment of inflammation biomarkers, extracted from three-dimensional (3D) high-resolution images of the human skin, not attainable by other noninvasive methods. We developed a second-generation ultra-broadband optoacoustic mesoscopy system, featuring sub–10-μm resolution and advanced motion correction technology, and performed 80 longitudinal measurements of 20 psoriatic skin plaques in humans under conventional inpatient treatment or receiving biologics with concomitant topical corticosteroid treatment. Optoacoustic image analysis revealed inflammatory and morphological skin features that indicated treatment efficacy with sensitivity, accuracy, and precision that was not possible using clinical metrics. We identify 3D imaging biomarkers that reveal responses to treatment and offer the potential to facilitate disease and treatment characterization. Our findings suggest that optoacoustic mesoscopy may offer a method of choice for yielding both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of skin treatments that are inaccessible by other methods, potentially enabling optimized therapies and precision medicine in dermatology.
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