Reduced Skin Blistering in Experimental Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita After Anti-TNF Treatment

Abstract Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is a difficult-to-treat subepidermal autoimmune blistering skin disease (AIBD) with circulating and tissue-bound anti-type VII collagen antibodies. Different reports have indicated increased concentration of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) in the serum an...

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Main Authors: Misa Hirose, Anika Kasprick, Foteini Beltsiou, Katharina Schulze Dieckhoff, Franziska Sophie Schulze, Unni K J S R L Samavedam, Jennifer E Hundt, Hendri H Pas, Marcel F Jonkman, Enno Schmidt, Kathrin Kalies, Detlef Zillikens, Ralf J Ludwig, Katja Bieber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-12-01
Series:Molecular Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.2119/molmed.2015.00206