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Parajuli N, Wang Q, Wang J, Yin C, Subedi K, Ge J, Yu Q, Khalasawi N, Jiang A, Mi QS, Zhou L. MicroRNA-17-92 Regulates Skin Langerhans Cell Embryonic Development by Targeting Cell Proliferation Pathways. J Invest Dermatol. 2025 May 21;. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2025.05.004. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40409677; NIHMSID:NIHMS2084273.
Young KZ, Loveless I, Su WK, Veenstra J, Yin C, Dimitrion P, Krevh R, Zhou L, She R, Pan M, Levin AM, Young A, Samir E, Dai A, Ge J, Huggins RH, de Guzman Strong C, Lim HW, Ozog DM, Hamzavi I, Adrianto I, Mi QS. A diverse hidradenitis suppurativa cohort: A retrospective cross-sectional study of 13,130 patients from a large US health care system database from 1995 to 2022. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2025 Mar;92(3):487-494. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2024.10.073. Epub 2024 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 39532232; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11859765.
Young AT, Lu K, Dai A, Hamzavi I, Huggins RH, Adrianto I, Zhou L, Mi QS. Infliximab shows superior drug survival among biologics for hidradenitis suppurativa: A cohort study. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2025 Jan;92(1):139-141. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2024.06.110. Epub 2024 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 39299517.
Fu C, Wang J, Ma T, Yin C, Zhou L, Clausen BE, Mi QS, Jiang A. GSK-3β in Dendritic Cells Exerts Opposite Functions in Regulating Cross-Priming and Memory CD8 T Cell Responses Independent of β-Catenin. Vaccines (Basel). 2024 Sep 10;12(9). doi: 10.3390/vaccines12091037. PubMed PMID: 39340067; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11436163.
Kumar S, Orcales F, Shih BB, Fang X, Yin C, Yates A, Dimitrion P, Neuhaus I, Johnson C, Adrianto I, Wiala A, Hamzavi I, Zhou L, Naik H, Posch C, Mi QS, Liao W. Cellular indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes (CITE-Seq) in hidradenitis suppurativa identifies dysregulated cell types in peripheral blood and facilitates diagnosis via machine learning. Res Sq. 2024 Sep 9;. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4791069/v1. PubMed PMID: 39315268; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11419166.
Lu W, Chu P, Tang A, Si L, Fang D. The secoiridoid glycoside Gentiopicroside is a USP22 inhibitor with potent antitumor immunotherapeutic activity. Biomed Pharmacother. 2024 Aug;177:116974. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116974. Epub 2024 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 38968798.
Fu C, Wang J, Ma T, Yin C, Zhou L, Clausen BE, Mi QS, Jiang A. β-Catenin in Dendritic Cells Negatively Regulates CD8 T Cell Immune Responses through the Immune Checkpoint Molecule Tim-3. Vaccines (Basel). 2024 Apr 25;12(5). doi: 10.3390/vaccines12050460. PubMed PMID: 38793711; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11125945.
Dimitrion P, Loveless I, Zhou L, Mi QS, Adrianto I. The Hidradenitis Suppurativa Omics Database (HS-OmicsDB). J Invest Dermatol. 2024 Jan;144(1):173-177.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2023.05.013. Epub 2023 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 37271451; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10692306.
Veenstra J, Ozog D, Loveless I, Adrianto I, Dimitrion P, Subedi K, Friedman BJ, Zhou L, Mi QS. Distinguishing Keratoacanthoma from Well-Differentiated Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using Single-Cell Spatial Pathology. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Dec;143(12):2397-2407.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2023.06.192. Epub 2023 Jul 5. PubMed PMID: 37419445; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10840781.
Dimitrion P, Hamzavi I, Yin C, Toor J, Subedi K, Khalasawi N, Miller A, Huggins R, Adrianto I, Veenstra J, Vellaichamy G, Hans A, Daveluy S, Athar M, Liao W, Lim H, Ozog D, Zhou L, Mi QS. Mass cytometry uncovers a distinct peripheral immune profile and upregulated CD38 expression in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa. Cell Mol Immunol. 2023 Aug;20(8):972-975. doi: 10.1038/s41423-023-01037-6. Epub 2023 May 29. PubMed PMID: 37248290; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10387467.
Krevh R, Wang J, Zuniga B, Toor J, Subedi K, Zhou L, Mi QS. TAK1 is essential for MAIT cell development and the differentiation of MAIT1 and MAIT17. Cell Mol Immunol. 2023 Jul;20(7):854-856. doi: 10.1038/s41423-023-00999-x. Epub 2023 Mar 27. PubMed PMID: 36973488; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10310715.
Wang J, Parajuli N, Wang Q, Khalasawi N, Peng H, Zhang J, Yin C, Mi QS, Zhou L. MiR-23a Regulates Skin Langerhans Cell Phagocytosis and Inflammation-Induced Langerhans Cell Repopulation. Biology (Basel). 2023 Jun 28;12(7). doi: 10.3390/biology12070925. PubMed PMID: 37508356; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10376168.
Wang J, Adrianto I, Subedi K, Liu T, Wu X, Yi Q, Loveless I, Yin C, Datta I, Sant'Angelo DB, Kronenberg M, Zhou L, Mi QS. Integrative scATAC-seq and scRNA-seq analyses map thymic iNKT cell development and identify Cbfβ for its commitment. Cell Discov. 2023 Jun 20;9(1):61. doi: 10.1038/s41421-023-00547-x. PubMed PMID: 37336875; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10279728.
Young KZ, Dimitrion P, Zhou L, Adrianto I, Mi QS. Sex-biased immunological processes drive hidradenitis suppurativa. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1167021. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1167021. eCollection 2023. Review. PubMed PMID: 37215102; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10192729.
Yi Q, Wang J, Liu T, Yao Y, Loveless I, Subedi K, Toor J, Adrianto I, Xiao H, Chen B, Crawford HC, Fang D, Zhou L, Mi QS. scRNA-Seq and imaging mass cytometry analyses unveil iNKT cells-mediated anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic cancer liver metastasis. Cancer Lett. 2023 May 1;561:216149. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2023.216149. Epub 2023 Mar 27. PubMed PMID: 36990268; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11737350.
Liu T, Toor JS, Subedi K, Wang J, Yi Q, Loveless I, Zhou L, Mi QS. Cbf-β is required for the development, differentiation, and function of murine mucosal-associated invariant T cells. Cell Mol Immunol. 2022 Nov;19(11):1314-1316. doi: 10.1038/s41423-022-00920-y. Epub 2022 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 36068293; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9622721.
Fu C, Ma T, Zhou L, Mi QS, Jiang A. Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccines Against Cancer: Challenges, Advances and Future Opportunities. Immunol Invest. 2022 Nov;51(8):2133-2158. doi: 10.1080/08820139.2022.2109486. Epub 2022 Aug 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 35946383.
Yao Y, Subedi K, Liu T, Khalasawi N, Pretto-Kernahan CD, Wotring JW, Wang J, Yin C, Jiang A, Fu C, Dimitrion P, Li J, Veenstra J, Yi Q, McKinnon K, McKinnon JE, Sexton JZ, Zhou L, Mi QS. Surface translocation of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 upon TLR4/7/8 activation is required for SARS-CoV-2 infection in circulating monocytes. Cell Discov. 2022 Sep 9;8(1):89. doi: 10.1038/s41421-022-00453-8. PubMed PMID: 36085197; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9462622.
Vellaichamy G, Amin AT, Dimitrion P, Hamzavi Z, Zhou L, Adrianto I, Mi QS. Recent advances in hidradenitis suppurativa: Role of race, genetics, and immunology. Front Genet. 2022;13:918858. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.918858. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36092908; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9458948.
Zhou L, Jiang A, Veenstra J, Ozog DM, Mi QS. The Roles of Skin Langerhans Cells in Immune Tolerance and Cancer Immunity. Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Aug 24;10(9). doi: 10.3390/vaccines10091380. Review. PubMed PMID: 36146458; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9503294.
Wang J, Loveless I, Adrianto I, Liu T, Subedi K, Wu X, Hossain MM, Sebzda E, Zhou L, Mi QS. Single-cell analysis reveals differences among iNKT cells colonizing peripheral organs and identifies Klf2 as a key gene for iNKT emigration. Cell Discov. 2022 Aug 2;8(1):75. doi: 10.1038/s41421-022-00432-z. PubMed PMID: 35915069; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9343440.
Vellaichamy G, Kohli I, Zubair R, Yin C, Braunberger T, Nahhas AF, Nicholson C, Mohammad TF, Isedeh P, Lyons AB, Nartker N, Al-Jamal M, Matsui M, Karaman-Jurukovska N, Zhou L, Lim HW, Mi QS, Hamzavi IH. An in vivo model of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation and erythema: clinical, colorimetric and molecular characteristics. Br J Dermatol. 2022 Mar;186(3):508-519. doi: 10.1111/bjd.20804. Epub 2021 Nov 24. PubMed PMID: 34625951.
Fu C, Zhou L, Mi QS, Jiang A. Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Cancer Immunotherapy. Cells. 2022 Jan 11;11(2). doi: 10.3390/cells11020222. Review. PubMed PMID: 35053338; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8773673.
Veenstra J, Wang J, McKinnon-Maksimowicz K, Liu T, Zuniga B, Hamzavi I, Zhou L, Mi QS. Correspondence on 'Immunogenicity and safety of anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in patients with chronic inflammatory conditions and immunosuppressive therapy in a monocentric cohort'. Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Oct;80(10):e160. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220736. Epub 2021 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 34112654; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8440471.
Vellaichamy G, Dimitrion P, Zhou L, Ozog D, Lim HW, Liao W, Hamzavi IH, Mi QS. Insights from γ-Secretase: Functional Genetics of Hidradenitis Suppurativa. J Invest Dermatol. 2021 Aug;141(8):1888-1896. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2021.01.023. Epub 2021 Apr 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 33836848; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8316262.
Mi QS, Wang J, Liu Q, Wu X, Zhou L. microRNA dynamic expression regulates invariant NKT cells. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2021 Aug;78(16):6003-6015. doi: 10.1007/s00018-021-03895-7. Epub 2021 Jul 8. Review. PubMed PMID: 34236444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11073247.
Yao Y, Fu C, Zhou L, Mi QS, Jiang A. DC-Derived Exosomes for Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Jul 21;13(15). doi: 10.3390/cancers13153667. Review. PubMed PMID: 34359569; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8345209.
Yu Q, Parajuli N, Yi Q, Mishina Y, Elder JT, Zhou L, Mi QS. ALK3 Is Not Required for the Embryonic Development, Homeostasis, and Repopulation of Epidermal Langerhans Cells in Steady and Inflammatory States. J Invest Dermatol. 2021 Jul;141(7):1858-1861. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.10.028. Epub 2020 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 33359325; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8219812.
Veenstra J, Dimitrion P, Yao Y, Zhou L, Ozog D, Mi QS. Research Techniques Made Simple: Use of Imaging Mass Cytometry for Dermatological Research and Clinical Applications. J Invest Dermatol. 2021 Apr;141(4):705-712.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.12.008. Review. PubMed PMID: 33752807; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7995633.
Xu Y, Dimitrion P, Cvetkovski S, Zhou L, Mi QS. Epidermal resident γδ T cell development and function in skin. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2021 Jan;78(2):573-580. doi: 10.1007/s00018-020-03613-9. Epub 2020 Aug 17. Review. PubMed PMID: 32803399; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11073445.
Yao Y, Liu Q, Adrianto I, Wu X, Glassbrook J, Khalasawi N, Yin C, Yi Q, Dong Z, Geissmann F, Zhou L, Mi QS. Histone deacetylase 3 controls lung alveolar macrophage development and homeostasis. Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 30;11(1):3822. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17630-6. PubMed PMID: 32732898; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7393351.
Zhou L, Adrianto I, Wang J, Wu X, Datta I, Mi QS. Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis Uncovers Distinct Functional Human NKT Cell Sub-Populations in Peripheral Blood. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2020;8:384. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00384. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32528956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7264113.
Huang L, Li GH, Yu Q, Xu Y, Cvetkovski S, Wang X, Parajuli N, Udo-Inyang I, Kaplan D, Zhou L, Yao Z, Mi QS. Smad2/4 Signaling Pathway Is Critical for Epidermal Langerhans Cell Repopulation Under Inflammatory Condition but Not Required for Their Homeostasis at Steady State. Front Immunol. 2020;11:912. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00912. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32457763; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7221176.
Wang J, Li G, Wu X, Liu Q, Yin C, Brown SL, Xu S, Mi QS, Zhou L. miR-183-96-182 Cluster Is Involved in Invariant NKT Cell Development, Maturation, and Effector Function. J Immunol. 2019 Dec 15;203(12):3256-3267. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900695. Epub 2019 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 31748350; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6986331.
Yao Y, Martin C, Yin C, Guo C, Dong Z, Zhou L, Mi QS. Micro RNAs are required for Langerhans cell, skin- and lung-resident macrophage ontogeny. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Sep;142(3):976-978.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.04.024. Epub 2018 May 8. PubMed PMID: 29751006; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6129406.
Wu X, Yang B, Udo-Inyang I, Ji S, Ozog D, Zhou L, Mi QS. Research Techniques Made Simple: Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and its Applications in Dermatology. J Invest Dermatol. 2018 May;138(5):1004-1009. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.01.026. PubMed PMID: 29681386; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6363595.
Zhang QB, Qing YF, Yin CC, Zhou L, Liu XS, Mi QS, Zhou JG. Mice with miR-146a deficiency develop severe gouty arthritis via dysregulation of TRAF 6, IRAK 1 and NALP3 inflammasome. Arthritis Res Ther. 2018 Mar 15;20(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s13075-018-1546-7. PubMed PMID: 29544526; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5855987.
Yao Y, Liu Q, Martin C, Yin C, Dong Z, Mi QS, Zhou L. Embryonic Fate Mapping Uncovers the Critical Role of microRNAs in the Development of Epidermal γδ T Cells. J Invest Dermatol. 2018 Jan;138(1):236-239. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.08.023. Epub 2017 Sep 1. PubMed PMID: 28870694; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5837857.
Zhang X, Yao Y, Wei WZ, Yang ZQ, Gu J, Zhou L. Impaired epidermal Langerhans cell maturation in TGFβ-inducible early gene 1 (TIEG1) knockout mice. Oncotarget. 2017 Dec 22;8(68):112875-112882. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.22843. eCollection 2017 Dec 22. PubMed PMID: 29348873; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5762558.
Wang J, Yang Q, Zhang Q, Yin C, Zhou L, Zhou J, Wang Y, Mi QS. Invariant Natural Killer T Cells Ameliorate Monosodium Urate Crystal-Induced Gouty Inflammation in Mice. Front Immunol. 2017;8:1710. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01710. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 29312287; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5733058.
Liu Q, Wu DH, Han L, Deng JW, Zhou L, He R, Lu CJ, Mi QS. Roles of microRNAs in psoriasis: Immunological functions and potential biomarkers. Exp Dermatol. 2017 Apr;26(4):359-367. doi: 10.1111/exd.13249. Epub 2017 Mar 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 27783430; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5837862.
Liu Q, Zhang X, Yin C, Chen X, Zhang Z, Brown S, Xie H, Zhou L, Mi QS. HDAC4 is expressed on multiple T cell lineages but dispensable for their development and function. Oncotarget. 2017 Mar 14;8(11):17562-17572. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.15077. PubMed PMID: 28177888; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5392269.
Wu D, Bi X, Qu L, Han L, Yin C, Deng J, Dong Z, Mi QS, Zhou L. miRNA miR-17-92 cluster is differentially regulated in the imiqumod-treated skin but is not required for imiqumod-induced psoriasis-like dermatitis in mice. Exp Dermatol. 2017 Jan;26(1):82-84. doi: 10.1111/exd.13186. PubMed PMID: 27579777; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5195906.
Isaacs SR, Wang J, Kim KW, Yin C, Zhou L, Mi QS, Craig ME. MicroRNAs in Type 1 Diabetes: Complex Interregulation of the Immune System, β Cell Function and Viral Infections. Curr Diab Rep. 2016 Dec;16(12):133. doi: 10.1007/s11892-016-0819-2. Review. PubMed PMID: 27844276.
Zhang X, Gu J, Zhou L, Mi QS. TIM-4 is expressed on invariant NKT cells but dispensable for their development and function. Oncotarget. 2016 Nov 1;7(44):71099-71111. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12153. PubMed PMID: 27662666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5340118.
Yin C, Weiland M, Miao ZM, Li C, Zhou L, Mi QS. Deletion of microRNA miR-146a does not prevent streptozotocin-induced murine autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Metab. 2016 Nov;42(5):372-373. doi: 10.1016/j.diabet.2016.03.007. Epub 2016 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 27133137.
Jin Y, Andersen G, Yorgov D, Ferrara TM, Ben S, Brownson KM, Holland PJ, Birlea SA, Siebert J, Hartmann A, Lienert A, van Geel N, Lambert J, Luiten RM, Wolkerstorfer A, Wietze van der Veen JP, Bennett DC, Taïeb A, Ezzedine K, Kemp EH, Gawkrodger DJ, Weetman AP, Kõks S, Prans E, Kingo K, Karelson M, Wallace MR, McCormack WT, Overbeck A, Moretti S, Colucci R, Picardo M, Silverberg NB, Olsson M, Valle Y, Korobko I, Böhm M, Lim HW, Hamzavi I, Zhou L, Mi QS, Fain PR, Santorico SA, Spritz RA. Genome-wide association studies of autoimmune vitiligo identify 23 new risk loci and highlight key pathways and regulatory variants. Nat Genet. 2016 Nov;48(11):1418-1424. doi: 10.1038/ng.3680. Epub 2016 Oct 10. PubMed PMID: 27723757; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5120758.
Chen WB, Gao L, Wang J, Wang YG, Dong Z, Zhao J, Mi QS, Zhou L. Conditional ablation of HDAC3 in islet beta cells results in glucose intolerance and enhanced susceptibility to STZ-induced diabetes. Oncotarget. 2016 Sep 6;7(36):57485-57497. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.11295. PubMed PMID: 27542279; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5295367.
Zhang X, Liu Q, Wang J, Li G, Weiland M, Yu FS, Mi QS, Gu J, Zhou L. TIM-4 is differentially expressed in the distinct subsets of dendritic cells in skin and skin-draining lymph nodes and controls skin Langerhans cell homeostasis. Oncotarget. 2016 Jun 21;7(25):37498-37512. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.9546. PubMed PMID: 27224924; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5122327.
Fahs F, Bi XL, Yu FS, Zhou L, Mi QS. Small RNAs Play Big Roles: MicroRNAs in Diabetic Wound Healing. Curr Mol Med. 2016 Jun 6;. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27280494.
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