YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR RARE DERMATOLOGIC DISEASES
The French Network for rare dermatologic diseases has launched its youtube channel wher are posted videos about various issues (French talking):
Aesthetic Disability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO0FlVQ1B2k
Local Houses for Disabled People (MDPH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO0FlVQ1B2k
Corrective Make-up
Dill Extract Induces Elastic Fiber Neosynthesis and Functional Improvement in the Ascending Aorta of Aged Mice with Reversal of Age-Dependent Cardiac
Hypertrophy and Involvement of Lysyl Oxidase-Like-1
Wassim Fhayli 1, Quentin Boëté 1, Nadjib Kihal 2, Valérie Cenizo 3, Pascal Sommer 4,
Walter A. Boyle 5, Marie-Paule Jacob 6 and Gilles Faury 1,*
1 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CHU Grenoble Alpes, HP2, 38000 Grenoble, France;
wassimfhayli@gmail.com (W.F.); boete.quentin@gmail.com (Q.B.)
2 Laboratoire de Phytochimie et de Pharmacologie, Département de Chimie, Université de Jijel, Jijel 18000,
Algeria; nadjib.kihal@icloud.com
3 L’Occitane en Provence, 04100 Manosque, France; val.cenizo@gmail.com
4 Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines UMR5305—LBTI, CNRS, 69367 Lyon, France;
pascal.sommer@univ-amu.fr
5 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Division, Washington University School of
Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA; boylew@wustl.edu
6 INSERM, U1148, and Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, 75018 Paris, France; marie-paule.jacob@orange.fr
* Correspondence: gilles.faury@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr; Tel.: +33-4-76-63-75-39
The only article describing the stimulation in vivo of the protection and synthesis of elastic fibers.
Full article : https://www.cutislaxa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Fhayli-et-al-2020-biomolecules-Dill-mice1.pdf
ARTERYLASTIC : First real therapeutic hope for vascular issue in Dominant Cutis Laxa.
ARTERYLASTIC derives from researches lead in Lyon (France) by Dr Romain Debret. Originating from the idea that if one can make prosthetics for a joint, maybe we could make prosthestics for a failing elastin, this project is funded by the French National Agency for Research. Selected in 2018, it will start in January 2019.
The project involves 3 laboratories from the Rhône-Alpes area: Laboratory for Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering (National Center for Scientific Research, Lyon), Laboratory for Hypoxia and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiopathologies (National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Grenoble), and Sainbiose Laboratory (National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Saint-Etienne).
The main aim of the project is to develop a synthetic elastic protein as medicine agent to improve or restore the vascular elasticity when it is failing in genetic disorders such as Cutis Laxa and Williams Syndrome, but also in non syndromic pathologies such as sleeping apneia.
This project aims to analyse the way the synthetic protein is acting and evaluate its efficiency in pertinent biological models.
The « DHERMIC » project, which preceded ARTERYLASTIC, already provided a wide set of solid data regarding the skin for the synthetic elastic protein. Recent preliminary results regarding the integration in blood vessels walls in fishes and mice are very promising.
An important part of the work will also be dedicated to the pharmacological formulation and certification to allow for the implementation of Clinical Trials at the end of the project (late 2021).
In March, the American Journal of Medecine Genetics published an article showing that a mutation on the gene PTDSS1 leads to a very rare type of Cutis Laxa : Lenz-Majewski Syndrome (LMS) . It includes Cutis Laxa with growth delay, dwarfism and intellectual delay. According to this study of 3 cases, this is a new type of Cutis Laxa that needs to be added to those already identified.
ATP6V1E1 or ATP6V1A, are the new mutations recently published by a team of researchers including, among others, les nouvelles mutations publiées par une équipe de chercheurs incluant, entre autres, Mmes Gardeitchik, Mohammed, De Paepe, Malfait and Morava as well as Messrs Kornak, Wevers and Callewaert, who are researchers we are in contact with.
Those mutations can be included in Autosomal Recessive Cutis Laxa type 2 (ARCL2). They lead to Glycosylation Abnormalities (CDGs).