Induction of dermal-epidermal separation in mice by passive transfer of antibodies specific to type VII collagen

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 870-878

  Sitaru, Cassian ^a   Mihai, Sidonia ^a   Otto, Christoph ^b   Chiriac, Mircea T ^b   Hausser, Ingrid ^c   Dotterweich, Barbara ^b   Saito, Hitoshi ^d   Rose, Christian ^a   Ishiko, Akira ^d   Zillikens, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COLLAGEN ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB')2 FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIBODIES; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; COMPLEMENT C5; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; SKIN;

EID: 20144387101     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200521386     Document Type: Article

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