Impact of Sex Hormones on Human Skin Immunity in Health and Hidradenitis Suppurativa (SIAP)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

240 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2026-01-31

Study Completion Date

2031-03-31

Brief Summary

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Sex hormones are major regulators of skin immunity. Pregnancy represents a unique physiological state of profound hormonal remodeling. In late pregnancy, maternal levels of estrogens, progesterone, and other hormones increase dramatically, offering an unparalleled model to study the impact of sex hormones on skin immunity. Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) provides a clinically relevant model to examine how sex hormones modulate skin inflammation.

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Detailed Description

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Sex hormones are major regulators of skin immunity. Recent work from Belkaid's laboratory in mice demonstrated that testosterone negatively regulated skin innate lymphoid cells (ILC2), leading to a reduction in dendritic cell accumulation and decreased activation in males, along with reduced tissue immunity. These findings highlight that sex-related differences in skin immunity emerge primarily after sexual maturation, driven by fluctuating hormone levels. However, whether these mechanisms are conserved in humans remains unknown.

Pregnancy represents a unique physiological state of profound hormonal remodeling. In late pregnancy, maternal levels of estrogens, progesterone, and other hormones increase dramatically, offering an unparalleled model to study the impact of sex hormones on skin immunity. Understanding maternal skin immunity is of particular importance, as the maternal immune system must balance tolerance to the fetus with protection against pathogens. Perturbation in this balance can have lasting effects on both maternal and child health. Faced with the dramatic increase in inflammatory and autoimmune disorders affecting children globally, understanding maternal immunity is of fundamental importance.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) provides a clinically relevant disease model to examine how sex hormones modulate skin inflammation. HS is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with strong sex dimorphism: it affects predominantly women (70%) in Europe but is often more severe in men. In women, HS severity varies with the menstrual cycle and is frequently altered during pregnancy, suggesting a hormonal component in disease modulation. Yet, the mechanisms linking sex hormones, pregnancy, and skin immune responses in HS remain unexplored.

By systematically comparing men, non-pregnant women, and pregnant women, in both health and HS, this study will map immune cell populations in the skin and determine how sex hormones; testosterone, estrogens, and progesterone; shape cutaneous immunity at steady state and during inflammation.

Conditions

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Skin Immunity

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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