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New avenues for anti-inflammatory therapy

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A new study identifies the chemokine CCL27 and its receptor CCR10 as important homing molecules for T-cell migration to the skin. Moreover, they find that CCL27 inhibition suppresses some skin-inflammatory responses, suggesting that therapies targeting CCL10 could be used to treat several human skin disorders. (pages 157–165)

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Figure 1: Stages in the development of skin-associated inflammatory responses.

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