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Closure of a Large Chronic Wound through Transplantation of Gene-Corrected Epidermal Stem Cells
10 Nov 2016
Abstract excerpt
Generalized junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) is caused by mutations in LAMA3, LAMB3, or LAMC2, which together encode laminin-332, a heterotrimeric protein consisting of α3, β3, and γ2 chains (Fine et al., 2014). In nonlethal generalized intermediate JEB, laminin-332 is highly reduced, and hemidesmosomes are rudimentary or completely absent, leading to blister formation within the lamina lucida of the...
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