Clinical severity correlates with impaired barrier in filaggrin-related eczema

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 682-689

  Nemoto Hasebe, Ikue ^a   Akiyama, Masashi ^a   Nomura, Toshifumi ^a   Sandilands, Aileen ^b   McLean, W H Irwin ^b   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAGGRIN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CAT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ECZEMA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MUTATION;

EID: 59949089906     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2008.280     Document Type: Article

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