AN INVITRO MODEL OF IMMUNE COMPLEX-MEDIATED BASEMENT-MEMBRANE ZONE SEPARATION CAUSED BY PEMPHIGOID ANTIBODIES, LEUKOCYTES, AND COMPLEMENT
AN INVITRO MODEL OF IMMUNE COMPLEX-MEDIATED BASEMENT-MEMBRANE ZONE SEPARATION CAUSED BY PEMPHIGOID ANTIBODIES, LEUKOCYTES, AND COMPLEMENT
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DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12507222
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
WHEELER, CE
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作者:
GAMMON, WR;MERRITT, CC;WHEELER, CE
An in vitro model of immune complex-mediated basement membrane zone separation caused by pemphigoid antibodies, serum complement and peripheral blood leukocytes is described. When cryostat sections of fresh-frozen normal human skin were treated with either of 4 bullous pemiphigoid sera containing complement-activating anti-basement membrane zone antibodies and subsequently incubated at 37.degree. C with normal human peripheral blood leukocytes and fresh human serum, leukocytes attached to 96% of the basement membrane zone in 100% of sections. Of the sections, 67% developed focal areas of basement membrane zone separation resembling dermal-epidermal separation described in early pemphigoid lesions. In control sections in which either leukocytes, pemphigoid antibody or fresh human serum were omitted, significantly less leukocyte attachment and basement membrane zone separation occurred. Evidence that leukocytes caused separation was supported by an absolute requirement for viable leukocytes during incubation, a high correlation between leukocyte attachment and separation and experiments showing that leukocytes attached to the basement membrane zone were activated. This study provides the 1st in vitro evidence directly supporting a functional role for immune complex mediated inflammation in the pathogenesis of basement membrane zone separation and blisters in bullous pemphigoid.