VPJ Saw, E Schmidt, I Offiah, G Galatowicz… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier Ocular mucous membrane pemphigoid is an immunobullous disease in which excessive conjunctival fibrosis causes blindness, and the pathogenesis of scarring is incompletely understood. To establish whether profibrotic fibroblasts with an altered phenotype exist in ocular mucous ... Related articles - All 7 versions
CP Chen, R Plunkett, R Grover… - Dermatologica Sinica, 2011 - Elsevier Antiepiligrin cicatricial pemphigoid (AECP) is a chronic autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease characterized by clinical features of cicatricial pemphigoid and circulating IgG antibasement membrane autoantibodies directed against laminin 332. There is growing evidence of an ... All 2 versions
LR Zakka, P Reche… - Autoimmunity Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier Pemphigoid (Pg) is an autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease that affects the elderly population. The phenotype can be Bullous Pemphigoid (BP), which primarily involves the skin, or Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid (MMP), which primarily involves mucus ...
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