Cardiac Autoantibodies from Patients Affected by a New Variant of Endemic Pemphigus Foliaceus in Colombia, South America

Several patients affected by a new variant of endemic pemphigus foliaceus in El Bagre, Colombia (El Bagre-EPF) have experienced a sudden death syndrome, including persons below the age of 50. El Bagre-EPF patients share several autoantigens with paraneoplastic pemphigus patients, such as reactivity...

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Published in:	Journal of clinical immunology Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 985 - 997
Main Authors:	Abreu-Velez, Ana Maria, Howard, Michael S., Jiao, Zhe, Gao, Weiqing, Yi, Hong, Grossniklaus, Hans E., Duque-Ramírez, Mauricio, Dudley, Samuel C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Boston Springer US 01-12-2011 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	adherens junctions Adult Age Animals Antigen-Antibody Complex - metabolism Autoantibodies Autoantibodies - immunology Autoantibodies - metabolism Autoantigens Autoantigens - immunology Autoantigens - metabolism Bagre Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedicine Blood vessels Cadherins - immunology Cadherins - metabolism Carditis Cattle Cell Adhesion Molecules - immunology Cell Adhesion Molecules - metabolism Cell junctions Colombia Confocal microscopy Connexin 43 Connexin 43 - immunology Connexin 43 - metabolism Cytoskeletal Proteins - immunology Cytoskeletal Proteins - metabolism Death, Sudden, Cardiac Desmoplakins - immunology Desmoplakins - metabolism Endemic Diseases Epitopes ezrin Gap junctions Heart Heart - physiology Heart - physiopathology Humans Immune response Immunoblotting Immunoelectron microscopy Immunofluorescence Immunohistochemistry Immunology Infectious Diseases Intercellular Junctions - ultrastructure Internal Medicine Medical Microbiology Mice Microscopy, Electron Middle Aged Myocardium - immunology Myocardium - metabolism Myocardium - ultrastructure Pemphigus Pemphigus - epidemiology Pemphigus - immunology Pemphigus - mortality Pemphigus - physiopathology Pemphigus foliaceus Purkinje fibers Rats Receptors, Cell Surface - immunology Receptors, Cell Surface - metabolism Sarcomeres sudden death syndrome Tight junctions Young Adult Colombia Heart cell junctions endemic pemphigus foliaceus autoimmunity plakins area composita
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