Human placental amnion is a novel substrate for detecting autoantibodies in autoimmune bullous diseases by immunoblotting

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 939-944

  Oyama, Noritaka ^a   Bhogal, B S ^a   Carrington, P ^a   Gratian, M J ^a   Black, M M ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmune bullous diseases; Desmosomal and basement membrane zone proteins; Electron microscopy; Immunoblotting; Immunofluorescence; Protein extraction

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY;

AMNION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BULLOUS DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DESMOSOME; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOSA; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PEMPHIGOID; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION;

AMNION; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS;

EID: 0037863154     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2003.05316.x     Document Type: Article

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