Vitiligo: a review

C Bergqvist, K Ezzedine - Dermatology, 2020 - karger.com
Vitiligo, a common depigmenting skin disorder, has an estimated prevalence of 0.5–2% of
the population worldwide. The disease is characterized by the selective loss of melanocytes …

Mechanisms of melanocyte death in vitiligo

J Chen, S Li, C Li - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vitiligo is an autoimmune depigment disease results from extensive melanocytes
destruction. The destruction of melanocyte is thought to be of multifactorial causation …

[PDF][PDF] Burden of Autoimmune Disorders; a review

KM Cuthrell, N Tzenios, J Umber - Asian Journal of Immunology, 2022 - researchgate.net
When immunologic tolerance to auto-reactive immune cells is lost, autoimmune illness
manifests as the immune system attacking self-molecules. Numerous autoimmune diseases …

Vitiligo: a focus on pathogenesis and its therapeutic implications

C Bergqvist, K Ezzedine - The Journal of dermatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vitiligo is the most common depigmenting disorder affecting 0.1%–2% of the population
worldwide. The characteristic white patches result from the selective loss of melanocytes …

Vitiligo: mechanisms of pathogenesis and treatment

ML Frisoli, K Essien, JE Harris - Annual review of immunology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease of the skin that targets pigment-producing melanocytes
and results in patches of depigmentation that are visible as white spots. Recent research …

Genome-wide association studies of autoimmune vitiligo identify 23 new risk loci and highlight key pathways and regulatory variants

Y Jin, G Andersen, D Yorgov, TM Ferrara, S Ben… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease in which depigmented skin results from the destruction of
melanocytes, with epidemiological association with other autoimmune diseases. In previous …

Vitiligo: a comprehensive overview: part I. Introduction, epidemiology, quality of life, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, associations, histopathology, etiology, and work …

A Alikhan, LM Felsten, M Daly… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vitiligo is an acquired pigmentary disorder of unknown etiology that is clinically
characterized by the development of white macules related to the selective loss of …

Vitiligo, from pathogenesis to therapeutic advances: state of the art

F Diotallevi, H Gioacchini, E De Simoni… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vitiligo is an acquired hypopigmentation of the skin due to a progressive selective loss of
melanocytes; it has a prevalence of 1–2% and appears as rounded, well-demarcated white …

Recent insights in the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases: improved prevalence estimates and understanding of clustering of diseases

GS Cooper, MLK Bynum, EC Somers - Journal of autoimmunity, 2009 - Elsevier
Previous studies have estimated a prevalence of a broad grouping of autoimmune diseases
of 3.2%, based on literature review of studies published between 1965 and 1995, and 5.3 …

The prevalence of vitiligo: a meta-analysis

Y Zhang, Y Cai, M Shi, S Jiang, S Cui, Y Wu, XH Gao… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Objective To conduct a meta-analysis assessing the prevalence of vitiligo. Methods
Literatures that reported prevalence rates of vitiligo were identified using EMBASE, PubMed …