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- Title
Cicatricial pemphigoid (benign mucous membrane pemphigoid).
- Authors
Terezhalmy, Geza T.; Bergfeld, Wilma F.
- Abstract
Cicatricial pemphigoid is a chronic mucocutaneous bullous condition. It is a heterogenous autoimmune diseas, chraracterized by the production of autoantibodies against basement membrane zone antigens. The target antigens in cicatricial pemphigoid appear to be lamina lucida proteins involved in human keratinocyte adhesion to extracellular matrix.1-3 Cicatricial pemphigoid primarily affects persons older than 40 years and appears to have a 2:1 predilection for women, without racial or geographic bias.
- Subjects
AUTOIMMUNE diseases; AUTOANTIBODIES; BASAL lamina; ANTIGENS; PROTEINS; KERATINOCYTES; EXTRACELLULAR matrix; DENTAL pathology; DENTAL hygiene
- Publication
Quintessence International, 1998, Vol 29, Issue 7, p429
- ISSN
0033-6572
- Publication type
Article