Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita: a disease of autoimmunity to type VII collagen.

doi:10.1016/0896-8411(91)90007-y

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Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita: a disease of autoimmunity to type VII collagen.

Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Feb 1991

Gammon W R

Abstract excerpt

Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is one of a group of primary blistering diseases characterized by dermal/epidermal separation at the basement membrane (BM) of stratified squamous epithelium and IgG anti-BM autoantibodies (ABM). EBA ABMs can be distinguished from IgG ABMs in all other primar...

Topics

Autoantibodies
Autoantigens
Autoimmune Diseases
Basement Membrane
Collagen
Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita
Humans
Major Histocompatibility Complex
Phenotype

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