DERMAL DEPOSITION OF EOSINOPHIL-GRANULE MAJOR BASIC-PROTEIN IN ATOPIC-DERMATITIS - COMPARISON WITH ONCHOCERCIASIS
DERMAL DEPOSITION OF EOSINOPHIL-GRANULE MAJOR BASIC-PROTEIN IN ATOPIC-DERMATITIS - COMPARISON WITH ONCHOCERCIASIS
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm198508013130502
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
GLEICH, GJ
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作者:
LEIFERMAN, KM;ACKERMAN, SJ;GLEICH, GJ
Although blood eosinophilia is commonly present in atopic dermatitis, accumulation of tissue eosinophils is not prominent. Eosinophils degranulation was studied to determine if it occurs in lesions of atopic dermatitis. Tissues were analyzed by immunofluorescence for the presence of the eosinophil-granule major basic protein. Twenty biopsy specimens from 18 patients with atopic dermatitis were studied, and all showed major basic protein staining outside eosinophils. In 18 specimens, the staining was fibrillar, was located in the upper half of the dermatis, and was similar to the distribution of elastic fibers. Twelve specimens with fibrillar staining also showed major basic protein staining in the form of extracellular granules. One specimen from unaffected skin showed minimal faint, fine, fluorescing fibrils, but there was marked deposition of the protein in affected skin. The fibrillar pattern of major basic protein staining in atopic dermatis was very similar to that seen in lichenified lesions of untreated onchocerciasis. Eosinophils commonly release granule proteins in the dermis and assessment of eosinophil involvement in disease cannot be based simply on numbers of eosinophils in tissue.