Amondrea Blackman

This study shows that miR-21 inhibition improves bacterial clearance and reduces inflammation in S. aureus skin infections by modulating MyD88-dependent pathways.

The paper establishes a murine dermal macrophage cell line, SB89, which maintains key functional and transcriptional features of resident dermal macrophages and offers a renewable model for skin immunology research.

This study shows hyperglycemia impairs skin antifungal defenses by promoting maladaptive Dectin-1 signaling, which can be mitigated by GLP-1 agonists.