Antibodies to desmogleins 1 and 3, but not to BP180, induce blisters in human skin grafted onto SCID mice

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 117-124

  Zillikens, D ^a   Schmidt, E ^a   Reimer, S ^a   Chimanovitch, I ^a   Hardt Weinelt, K ^b   Rose, C ^a   Brocker E B ^a   Kock, M ^b   Boehncke, W H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Autoantigens; Autoimmunity; Basement membrane zone; Bullous pemphigoid; Desmosome; Hemidesmosome; Interleukin 8; Pemphigus foliaceus; Pemphigus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BP 180; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DESMOGLEIN; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DESMOSOME; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HEMIDESMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PEMPHIGOID; PEMPHIGUS; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCID MOUSE; SERUM; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CADHERINS; COMPLEMENT C3; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; PEMPHIGUS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0035160821     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(2000)9999:9999<::AID-PATH742>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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