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Successful therapeutic transplantation of revertant skin in epidermolysis bullosa.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - 1 Jan 2014
Gostyński Antoni, Pasmooij Anna M G, Jonkman Marcel F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a group of genetic blistering diseases. Despite many efforts, treatment for EB remains symptomatic. Revertant mosaicism, coexistence of cells carrying disease-causing mutations with cells in which the inherited mutation is genetically corrected by a spontaneous genetic event (revertant cells) in 1 individual, can be found in EB. The naturally corrected revertant...
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