Article
Heterogeneity of severe dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa: overexpression of collagen VII by cutaneous cells from a patient with mutilating disease.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Feb 1994
König A, Winberg J O, Gedde-Dahl T, Bruckner-Tuderman L
Abstract excerpt
Severe mutilating recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa presents with extensive blistering, scarring, and pseudosyndactylies. The skin of most affected individuals lacks normal anchoring fibrils and contains no, or drastically reduced amounts of, collagen VII, the major fibril component. Her...
Topics
- Adult
- Antigens
- Basement Membrane
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagen
- Epidermolysis Bullosa Dystrophica
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Humans
