Increased apoptotic cell death in the skin of ORAS patient III.2. Serial sections of normal skin (top panels) and a skin biopsy from patient III.2 taken at an inflammatory flare (bottom panels) were immunostained for cleaved caspase-3 (centre panels) or analysed by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay (right panels). Arrowheads indicate cleaved caspase-3-positive mesenchymal cells. None  of these markers were present in the healthy control skin. H&E, haematoxylin and eosin. Boxes in H&E panels indicate the areas magnified in the cleaved caspase-3 and TUNEL panels. Scale bars, 100 μm.  Data are representative of stained sections from three healthy controls and one biopsy from ORAS patient III.2. 