Selection of conserved TCR VDJ rearrangements in chronic psoriatic plaques indicates a common antigen in psoriasis vulgaris

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3360-3368

  Prinz, Jörg C ^a   Vollmer, Sigrid ^a   Boehncke, Wolf Henning ^b   Menssen, Antje ^a   Laisney, Isabelle ^a   Trommler, Paul ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pathogenesis; Psoriasis vulgaris; T cell; TCR rearrangement; Twin analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; SKIN INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSORIASIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032825299     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199910)29:10<3360::AID-IMMU3360>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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