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  2. Percutaneous Delivery of Hederacoside C-Loaded Nanoliposome Gel Alleviates Psoriasiform Skin Inflammation through the CCL17/Treg Axis

Percutaneous Delivery of Hederacoside C-Loaded Nanoliposome Gel Alleviates Psoriasiform Skin Inflammation through the CCL17/Treg Axis

  • ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024 Sep 18;16(37):48969-48981. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c06720.
Yuchao Chen 1 2 Chun-Ling Liang 1 2 Huazhen Liu 1 2 Haiming Chen 1 2 Yuming He 1 Jingru Lin 1 Zenghua He 1 Feifei Qiu 1 2 Bin Yang 3 Chuanjian Lu 1 2 Zhenhua Dai 1 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Joint Immunology Program, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, P. R. China.
  • 2 Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, P. R. China.
  • 3 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, U.K.
Abstract

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent, and inflammatory skin disease. Topical agents, which can avoid the adverse effects of systemic treatment, are the first-choice therapy for patients with mild-to-moderate psoriasis. Hederacoside C (HSC) with anti-inflammatory properties has been used to treat some inflammatory diseases. We speculated that HSC might also be effective for psoriasis treatment. However, topical application of HSC for psoriasis treatment is challenging because of its low water solubility and poor skin permeability. Therefore, it is important to effectively deliver HSC percutaneously using certain biomaterials. Here we constructed a hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin-coated Liposome gel formulation for the loading and percutaneously delivering of HSC, referred to as HSC-Lipo@gel. The characterization, stability, release properties, and mechanical or transdermal features of the HSC-Lipo@gel were evaluated. Its therapeutic potential was also demonstrated using mouse models of IMQ-induced psoriasis. We found that HSC-Lipo@gel effectively improved the skin permeability of HSC with the property of good stability and sustained release. Importantly, HSC-Lipo@gel showed higher efficacy than HSC@gel without liposomes in alleviating psoriatic skin lesions. It attenuated epidermal hyperplasia and suppressed expression of IL-17A, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-23 in lesional skin. Interestingly, HSC-Lipo@gel reduced the expression of CC chemokine ligand 17 (CCL17), but not CCL22, in the skin. Especially, HSC-Lipo@gel inhibited CCL17 expression by skin dendritic cells while increasing regulatory T cells (Tregs) in both skin and draining lymph nodes of psoriatic mice. Administration of CCL17 resulted in severe skin lesions and reduced CD4+FoxP3+ Tregs in psoriatic mice previously treated with HSC-Lipo@gel. Finally, HSC or HSC-Lipo also suppressed the CCL17 production by dendritic cells in vitro. Therefore, HSC-Lipo@gel alleviated psoriasiform skin inflammation by increasing cutaneous Tregs via downregulation of the expression of CCL17, but not CCL22. Thus, HSC-Lipo@gel may be a stable, highly permeable, and effective system for topical treatment of psoriasis.

Keywords

CCL17; Hederacoside C; Nanoliposome; Percutaneous delivery; Psoriasis; Regulatory T cell (Treg).

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