Are desmoglein autoantibodies essential for the immunopathogenesis of pemphigus vulgaris, or just 'witnesses of disease'?

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 815-

  Amagai, Masayuki ^a   Ahmed, A R ^b   Kitajima, Y ^b   Bystryn, J C ^b   Milner, Y ^b   Gniadecki, R ^b   Hertl, M ^b   Pincelli, C ^b   Fridkis Hareli, M ^b   Aoyama, Y ^b   Frusic Zlotkin M ^b   Muller E ^b   David, M ^b   Mimouni, D ^b   Vind Kezunovic, D ^b   Michel, B ^b   Mahoney, M ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acantholysis; Adhesion; Apoptosis; Autoantibody; Cytoskeleton; Desmoglein; Desmosomes; Pathogenesis; Pemphigus

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 1 ANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN 3; DESMOGLEIN 3 ANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN ANTIBODY; EXFOLIATIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; ISOENZYME; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CELL ADHESION; CROSS REACTION; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PHENOTYPE; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; DESMOSOMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; PEMPHIGUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33748893008     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2006.00499_1.x     Document Type: Article

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