Original Article

Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1992) 98, 343–350; doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12499802

Acute or Chronic Topical Retinoic Acid Treatment of Human Skin In Vivo Alters the Expression of Epidermal Transglutaminase, Loricrin, Involucrin, Filaggrin, and Keratins 6 and 13 but not Keratins 1, 10, and 14

Dean S Rosenthal1, Christopher E M Griffiths2, Stuart H Yuspa1, Dennis R Roop3 and John J Voorhees2

  1. 1Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
  2. 2Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
  3. 3Department of Cell Biology and Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Received 3 June 1991; Accepted 14 August 1991.

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Abstract

Histologic and immunocytochemical analyses were performed on cutaneous biopsies from 10 patients treated with retinoic acid under occlusion for 4 d compared to biopsies from 19 patients treated nightly for 16 weeks. Acute application of RA caused epidermal thickening (9 of 10 samples), stratum granulosum thickening (7 of 10), parakeratosis (4 of 10). a marked increase in the number of cell layers expressing epidermal transglutaminase (7 of 10), and focal expression of two non-epidermal keratins. K6 (8 of I0) and K13 (2 of I0), changes also observed with chronic treatment, Involucrin, filaggrin, and Ioricrin were also altered in samples from both acute and chronic treatment. An increased number of cell layers expressed both involucrin and filaggrin from both the acute (7 of I0) and chronic (14 of 19) treatment groups. In the acute group, loricrin expression was significantly reduced or absent in some regions of the epidermis (5 of 10). whereas most chronic samples showed an increased number of cell layers expressing loricrin (12 of 19). The pattern of expression of three major epidermal differentiation products, keratins K 1, K10, and K14, was not significantly altered in any of the acute or chronic samples. although there was a slight reduction in the detection of K10 in two of the acute samples. Thus, acute topical RA treatment under occlusion caused substantial changes in the epidermis, and reproduced most, but not all of the effects of Chronic treatment.

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