Granulysin-bearing cells in the skin lesions of acute graft-versus-host disease: Possible mechanisms for hypohidrosis in graft-versus-host disease

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-98

  Furudate, Sadanori ^a   Fujimura, Taku ^a   Kambayashi, Yumi ^a   Aiba, Setsuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute graft versus host disease; Dermcidin; Granulysin; Hypohidrosis

Indexed keywords

DERMCIDIN; GRANULYSIN; INTERLEUKIN 17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ANHIDROSIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDERMIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SKIN DEFECT; SWEAT; SWEAT GLAND;

EID: 84877990392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000350561     Document Type: Article

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