Reduced Skin Blistering in Experimental Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita After Anti-TNF Treatment

• Main Authors: Misa Hirose (Author), Anika Kasprick (Author), Foteini Beltsiou (Author), Katharina Schulze Dieckhoff (Author), Franziska Sophie Schulze (Author), Unni K J S R L Samavedam (Author), Jennifer E Hundt (Author), Hendri H Pas (Author), Marcel F Jonkman (Author), Enno Schmidt (Author), Kathrin Kalies (Author), Detlef Zillikens (Author), Ralf J Ludwig (Author), Katja Bieber (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is a difficult-to-treat subepidermal autoimmune blistering skin disease (AIBD) with circulating and tissue-bound anti-type VII collagen antibodies. Different reports have indicated increased concentration of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) in the serum an...