Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
2 (1993), S. 0
ISSN:
1468-3083
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
PG is a rare autoimmune bullous dermatosis of pregnancy that is characterised by linear deposition of C3, and occasionally IgG1 along the BMZ of lesional, perilesional and clinically normal skin when examined by direct immunofluorescence. Frequently there is a circulating IgG1 autoantibody (PG factor) directed against a BMZ antigen that avidly binds complement.The aberrant expression of MHC class II molecules in the placenta is important in triggering the immune response against a glycoprotein of 180 kDa found in the lamina lucida of the basement membrane of the amnion which cross reacts with that in the skin. The deposition of immune reagents in the placentae in PG has been implicated in the placental dysfunction and impaired foetal outcome which has been shown to occur in PG, Al present immunofluorescence is the key to differentiating PG from other clinically similar diseases.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3083.1993.tb00031.x
Permalink
| Library |
Location |
Call Number |
Volume/Issue/Year |
Availability |
