Identification and characterization of autoreactive T cell responses to bullous pemphigoid antigen 2 in patients and healthy controls

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2082-2089

  Büdinger, Lioba ^a   Borradori, Luca ^b   Yee, Carole ^c   Eming, Rüdiger ^a   Ferencik, Stanislav ^d   Grosse Wilde, Hans ^d   Merk, Hans F ^a   Yancey, Kim ^c   Hertl, Michael ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoreactive Th1 Th2 cells; Cytokines; Extracellular domain; Hemidesmosome; HLA class II restriction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMIDESMOSOME; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PEMPHIGOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032535445     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI3335     Document Type: Article

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