Epidermolysis bullosa: A spectrum of clinical phenotypes explained by molecular heterogeneity

Molecular Medicine Today

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 457-465

  Uitto, Jouni ^a   Pulkkinen, Leena ^a   McLean, W H Irwin ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; DESMOGLEIN; EPITOPE; GENE PRODUCT; INTEGRIN; KERATIN; LAMININ; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

BLISTER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

COLLAGEN; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATINS; LAMININ; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLECTIN;

EID: 0030767241     PISSN: 13574310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-4310(97)01112-X     Document Type: Review

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