Article
Psoriasis and bacterial superantigens--formal or causal correlation?
Trends in microbiology - 1 Dec 1996
Boehncke W H
Abstract excerpt
Superantigens have recently been identified as candidates for triggering crucial events in the development of psoriasis. Seemingly contradictory observations may complement each other when discussed in the context of the concept of an effector cell cascade initiated by bacterial superantigens tha...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes
- Exotoxins
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
- Mice
- Mice, SCID
- Psoriasis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
- Skin
- Skin Transplantation
- Streptococcus
- Superantigens
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets
