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New insights into the mechanisms of polymorphic light eruption: resistance to ultraviolet radiation‐induced immune suppression as an aetiological factor
12 Mar 2009
Abstract excerpt
An abnormal immune response has long been thought responsible for the patho-aetiology of polymorphic light eruption, the most common photodermatosis. Recent evidence indicates that polymorphic light eruption patients are resistant to the immune suppressive effects of sunlight, a phenomenon that leads to the formation of skin lesions upon seasonal sun exposure. This immunological abnormality in polymorphic light...
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