Pemphigus

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kasperkiewicz, Michael ^a   Ellebrecht, Christoph T ^b   Takahashi, Hayato ^c   Yamagami, Jun ^c   Zillikens, Detlef ^a   Payne, Aimee S ^b   Amagai, Masayuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DESMOGLEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; RITUXIMAB; AUTOANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACANTHOLYSIS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BASIC RESEARCH; BLISTER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PARANEOPLASTIC PEMPHIGUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THERAPY RESISTANCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PEMPHIGUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; PEMPHIGUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85018907319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.26     Document Type: Review

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