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Mucosal pemphigus vulgaris anti-Dsg3 IgG is pathogenic to the oral mucosa of humanized Dsg3 mice.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Jun 2015
Culton Donna A, McCray Suzanne K, Park Moonhee, Roberts James C, Li Ning, Zedek Daniel C, Anhalt Grant J, Cowley Dale O, Liu Zhi, Diaz Luis A
Abstract excerpt
There are two major clinical subsets of pemphigus vulgaris (PV)-mucosal PV (mPV) and mucocutaneous PV (mcPV). The mPV subset exhibits anti-human desmoglein (Dsg) 3 autoantibodies that fail to recognize murine Dsg3 (mDsg3); thus, passive transfer experiments of mPV IgG into wild-type (WT) mice have been unsuccessful at inducing disease. We therefore generated a fully humanized Dsg3 (hDSG3) murine model utilizing a...
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