New insights into the immunoultrastructural organization of cutaneous basement membrane zone molecules

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 303-313

  Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bullous pemphigoid; Epidermolysis bullosa; Immunoelectron microscopy; Laminin 5; Type VII collagen

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; KALININ;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PEMPHIGOID; REVIEW;

EID: 0031735711     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1998.tb00329.x     Document Type: Review

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