Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
British journal of dermatology
99 (1978), S. 0
ISSN:
1365-2133
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Acantholysis occurring in rhesus monkey skin explants cultured on sera of 9 pemphigus patients was found to be largely dependent on the titre of intercellular antibody, and not on the participation of complement. Skin explants cultured on normal human sera and pemphigoid sera failed to give rise to intercellular staining or to develop lesions.Six of eight ‘negative’ pemphigus sera with intercellular antibody titres of less than 20 on skin (and titres ranging from 20 to 160 on monkey oesophagus) reacted with the skin explants as revealed by direct immunofluorescence with an anti-IgG conjugate. The binding of antibodies from 3 of these 6 reactive sera resulted in some pathological changes in the explants. At least two of these 3 ‘negative’ sera came from pemphigus patients with skin lesions.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1978.tb01958.x
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