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. 2021 Jul 23;22(15):7869. doi: 10.3390/ijms22157869

Table 2.

Therapeutic materials that mediate autophagy in skin barrier-related skin diseases.

Skin Diseases Therapeutic Materials Effects on Autophagy Consequent Changes Refs.
Skin squamous cell carcinoma Chloroquine Apoptosis ↑ [96,97,98]
Melanoma Dabrafenib Antitumor activity ↑ [108]
Chloroquine Antitumor activity ↑ [109,110,111,112,113]
Acne Rapamycin Lipogenesis ↓, Fatty acid synthesis genes ↓ [117]

↓: Autophagy inhibition, ↑: Autophagy induction.