“…Furthermore, HDACis have been shown to downregulate proinflammatory cytokines in mouse models of autoimmune diseases such as, arthritis, asthma, colitis, graft versus host disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus [29, 30, 49–53]. Similar effects have been observed in humans and we previously reported the resolution of the autoimmune blistering disease bullous pemphigoid in a CTCL patient treated with an HDACi [28]. There are also case reports associating the reactivation of latent herpes viruses with HDACi treatment suggesting that HDACis suppress antiviral immunity [25, 26].…”