Hereditary barrier-related diseases involving the tight junction: lessons from skin and intestine

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 360, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 723-748

  Brandner, Johanna M ^a   Schulzke, Jörg D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Claudins; Crohn s disease; JAMs; NISCH syndrome; Occludin; Tight junctions

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 1; CLAUDIN 12; CLAUDIN 14; CLAUDIN 15; CLAUDIN 18; CLAUDIN 2; CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; CLAUDIN 5; CLAUDIN 7; CLAUDIN 8; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN ZO1; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLITIS; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CROHN DISEASE; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC DISORDER; HAILEY HAILEY DISEASE; HUMAN; ICHTHYOSIS VULGARIS; KERATINOCYTE; LARGE INTESTINE; NEONATAL ICHTHYOSIS SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN STRUCTURE; SMALL INTESTINE; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ENTEROPATHY; INTESTINE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84930277386     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-014-2096-1     Document Type: Review

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