A pathogenic role for IgE in autoimmunity: Bullous pemphigoid IgE reproduces the early phase of lesion development in human skin grafted to nu/nu mice

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2605-2611

  Fairley, Janet A ^a,b,c   Burnett, Christopher T ^a   Fu, Chang Ling ^a   Larson, David L ^a   Fleming, Matthew G ^a   Giudice, George J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLISTER; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; URTICARIA;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 35148868667     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700958     Document Type: Article

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