“…In the skin, MIF is expressed in the epidermal keratinocytes and fibroblasts (Shimizu et al, 1996, Watanabe et al, 2004. MIF is known to play an important role in the skin with regard to inflammation, the immune response, cutaneous wound healing (Zhao et al, 2005, Dewor et al, 2007 and skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis (Shimizu et al, 1999a, Hamasaka et al, 2009).…”