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October 12, 2012
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In the animal model described in our present work, purified IgG antibodies against a stretch of 200 amino acids (aa 757-967) of collagen VII are injected repeatedly into mice reproducing the blistering phenotype as well as the histo- and immunopathological features characteristic to human epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA)1.
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Csorba, K., Sitaru, S., Sitaru, C. Granulocyte-dependent Autoantibody-induced Skin Blistering. J. Vis. Exp. (68), e4250, doi:10.3791/4250 (2012).
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