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  • 1
    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background  The sera of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) react with type VII collagen, a major component of anchoring fibrils, in which the major epitopes have been considered to be present in the N-terminal noncollagenous (NC) 1 domain.Objectives  To determine whether there are also epitopes in the C-terminal NC2 domain, and to determine their ultrastructural localization.Methods  Immunoblotting using recombinant proteins of the NC1 and NC2 domains of type VII collagen, and postembedding immunoelectron microscopy.Results  Twenty of 28 EBA sera tested reacted with the NC1 domain and eight sera reacted with the NC2 domain. The sera that reacted with the NC1 domain showed immunoreactivity within the lamina densa and the sera that reacted with the NC2 domain showed immunoreactivity in the dermis 300–360 nm below the lamina densa.Conclusions  This study clearly identified the presence of epitopes in the NC2 domain, and showed that the epitope in the NC1 domain is present in the lamina densa and that the epitope in the NC2 domain is in the dermis below the lamina densa.
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    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Clinical and experimental dermatology 29 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2230
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: IgA pemphigus is a rare autoimmune bullous disease characterized by IgA deposition at keratinocyte cell surfaces. Clinically and histologically, IgA pemphigus is divided into two major subtypes: subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SPD) type and intraepidermal neutrophilic IgA dermatosis (IEN) type. Using cDNA transfection and living cell immunofluorescence, we previously showed that desmocollin 1, one of the desmosomal cadherins, is the autoantigen in SPD-type IgA pemphigus, but the autoantigen in IEN type is still unclear. In the present study we investigated antigen localization by postembedding immunoelectron microscopy. We examined three sera each of SPD-type and IEN-type IgA pemphigus. In SPD-type, gold particles were observed predominantly in the extracellular spaces between keratinocytes at desmosomes, although a few particles were observed in the intracellular domain at the desmosomal attachment plaques. In IEN type, the gold particles were observed mainly in the intercellular spaces in nondesmosomal areas. These results provide evidence that the IgA in the sera of SPD-type IgA pemphigus reacts with the extracellular domain of desmocollins. In contrast, the autoantigen for IEN type may in fact not be a component of desmosomes. IEN-type IgA pemphigus may be the first member of the pemphigus group of autoimmune bullous dermatoses that reacts with a nondesmosomal transmembranous protein.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 142 (2000), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: We describe familial cases of cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium avium. A 45-year-old father, his 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, among five persons in a family, presented with a 2-month history of inflammatory subcutaneous nodules and ulcerations. Histology of skin biopsy specimens showed granulomatous inflammation, and mycobacterial colonies isolated from the skin of each patient were identified as M. avium by DNA hybridization analysis. The patients were all treated successfully with combined drug therapy consisting of rifampicin, isoniazid and clarithromycin. Their lesions were purely cutaneous M. avium infection, without any visceral involvement. Neither systemic disease nor immunological impairment was detected in the family. However, they all used a circulating, constantly heated bath water system. The bath water was continuously heated to about 40 °C without changing the water for a few months, and M. avium was isolated from the filter of the bath tub heating unit. It is considered that this unusual familial cluster of cutaneous M. avium infection in healthy persons may have resulted from the use of contaminated bath water.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 142 (2000), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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    Oxford, UK : Munksgaard International Publishers
    Journal of periodontal research 37 (2002), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1600-0765
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Interactions between leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM−1) influence the development of osteoclasts. However, little is known about how these adhesion molecules are involved in the process of osteoclast development. This study evaluated the role of LFA-1 and its ligands in osteoclast development and bone resorption. Co-cultures of bone marrow cells from LFA-1-deficient mice and MC3T3-G2/PA6 (PA6) cells were cultured in the presence of 1α,25(OH)2D3 and dexamethasone for 7 days. The number of TRAP-positive cells that were generated by bone marrow cells from LFA-1-deficient mice was smaller than that generated by bone marrow cells from wild-type mice. In addition, the bone-resorbing activity of osteoclast-like cells that were generated from LFA-1-deficient mice was lower than that generated by osteoclast-like cells from wild-type mice. Immunofluorescence flow cytometry showed that osteoclast stromal PA6 cells expressed the cell adhesion molecules, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1. When monoclonal antibodies to mice VCAM-1, CD11b or CD18 were added separately to the co-culture system, the number of TRAP-positive cells that were generated from LFA-1-deficient mice was 20–30% smaller than that generated from wild-type mice. The formation of TRAP-positive cells from both LFA-1 deficient and wild-type mice was especially inhibited by anti-CD18 antibody, in comparison to the addition of normal IgG serum. These results suggest that LFA-1 adhesion molecules play a role in osteoclast development by affecting adhesion between stromal cells and osteoclast progenitors before the occurrence of ODF-ODF receptor signaling. CD18 appears to be a key adhesion molecule in cell-to-cell contacts during the early stage of osteoclast development.
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    Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology 65 (2000), S. 699-706 
    ISSN: 1432-0800
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Medicine
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    The European physical journal 17 (2003), S. 77-82 
    ISSN: 1434-601X
    Keywords: PACS. 12.38.Mh Quark-gluon plasma – 12.38.Gc Lattice QCD calculations – 12.39.Ba Bag model – 12.39.Mk Glueball and nonstandard multi-quark/gluon states
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Abstract: The lattice QCD studies indicate that the critical temperature T c ≃ 260-280 MeV of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD is considerably smaller than the lowest-lying glueball mass m G ≃ 1500-1700 MeV, i.e., T c ≪ m G. As a consequence of this large difference, the thermal excitation of the glueball in the confinement phase is strongly suppressed by the statistical factor e -mG/Tc ≃ 0.00207 even near T ≃ T c. We consider its physical implication, and argue the abnormal feature of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD from the statistical viewpoint. To appreciate this, we demonstrate a statistical argument of the QCD phase transition using the recent lattice QCD data. From the phenomenological relation between T c and the glueball mass, the deconfinement transition is found to take place in quenched QCD before a reasonable amount of glueballs is thermally excited. In this way, quenched QCD reveals a question “what is the trigger of the deconfinement phase transition ?”
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