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- Title
Dermatitis Herpetiformis: Preparation of Papillary Dermis and the Effect of Proteolytic Enzymes on the IgA Deposits.
- Authors
Egelrud, Torbjörn; Bäck, Ove
- Abstract
A technique has been devised to isolate the thin papillary part of the dermis from punch biopsies. Papillary dermis has been treated with various proteolytic enzymes in order to release or solubilize the granular IgA deposits from the papillary dermis of patients with dermatitis herpetiformis. Incubation of the thin skin preparations with pepsin caused a disappearance of the specific fluorescence with antibodies to human IgA. After peptic digestion small amounts of IgA could be detected in the supernatants. There was some evidence that this amount was larger for preparations from patients with dermatitis herpetiformis than from controls. Corresponding procedures with trypsin, collagenase, or elastase had no detectable effect on the IgA deposits. The experiments with elastase seemed to give support for previous reports on association between the granular IgA deposits and the microfibrils of elastic fibers.
- Subjects
DERMATITIS herpetiformis; PROTEOLYTIC enzymes; HYDROLASES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PLASMA cells; TRYPSIN; COLLAGENASES
- Publication
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 1984, Vol 82, Issue 5, p501
- ISSN
0022-202X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12261042