Do certain autoantibodies produced in the course of human autoimmune blistering skin diseases behave as adhesion molecules?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 815, Issue , 1997, Pages 506-508

  Gilbert, Danièle ^a   Brard, Frédéric ^a   Courville, Philippe ^a   Joly, Pascal ^a   Lauret, Philippe ^a   Tron, François ^a  

^a HÔPITAL CHARLES NICOLLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CATENIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DESMOPLAKIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLISTER; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; PEMPHIGUS; SKIN DISEASE;

PEMPHIGUS;

EID: 0030811673     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52116.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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