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Vieira FMJ, Aoki V, Oliveira ZNPD, Martins JEC. Study of direct immunofluorescence, immunofluorescence mapping and light microscopy in porphyria cutanea tarda. An Bras Dermatol 2011; 85:827-37. [PMID: 21308306 DOI: 10.1590/s0365-05962010000600008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2009] [Accepted: 06/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Even though porphyria cutanea tarda is the most frequent type of porphyria, there are few studies about its cutaneous physiopathology. OBJECTIVE To evaluate skin changes in porphyria cutanea tarda using light microscopy and direct immunofluorescence before and after treatment with chloroquine. To perform antigen immunomapping of bullae to study their level of cleavage. METHODS Light microscopy and direct immunofluorescence of 28 patients are reported in three different phases: 23 patients with active porphyria before treatment (Phase A), 7 patients with clinical remission during treatment (Phase B), and 8 patients with biochemical remission (Phase C). Immunomapping was performed on 7 patients. RESULTS In active porphyria, direct immunofluorescence showed homogenous and intense fluorescence on the inside and on the walls of blood vessels as well as in the dermal-epidermal junction. In clinical remission (Phase B) and biochemical remission (Phase C), the deposit of immunoglobulins was maintained, but the deposit of complement was reduced in most cases. Immunomapping revealed no standard cleavage plane. CONCLUSION No correlation was observed between clinical response and immunoglobulin deposits. The reduction of complement favors the hypothesis that activation of the complement cascade represents an additional pathway that leads to endothelial damage.
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Timonen K, Kariniemi AL, Niemi KM, Teppo AM, Tenhunen R, Kauppinen R. Vascular changes in erythropoietic protoporphyria: histopathologic and immunohistochemical study. J Am Acad Dermatol 2000; 43:489-97. [PMID: 10954661 DOI: 10.1067/mjd.2000.107498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an inherited disease caused by deficient activity of ferrochelatase in the heme biosynthetic pathway. Accumulation of protoporphyrins and light exposure results in acute phototoxic skin reactions. The histopathologic findings of the light-exposed skin are thickening of the superficial dermal vessel walls and amorphous deposits around the vessels, but the origin and detailed composition of the perivascular material have been unclear. OBJECTIVE The vascular morphology and composition of the perivascular material were studied in the skin samples of patients with EPP. METHODS Skin biopsy specimens of 8 patients with EPP representing 7 Finnish EPP families with different genotypes were studied by means of light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemical methods. RESULTS The characteristic finding was thickened, periodic acid-Schiff-positive vessel walls caused by concentric reduplication of basal lamina and excess of fine granular material at the basal membrane zone in the superficial dermis. The perivascular deposits in the vicinity of vessel walls had a homogeneous or fine granular appearance without filaments. Direct immunofluorescence showed constant IgG deposits together with IgA, IgM, and C3 in the vessel walls. In immunohistochemistry, collagen IV and laminin could be demonstrated at the vascular basal membrane together with serum amyloid P protein, kappa and lambda light chains, and a 90-kd glycoprotein. CONCLUSION The vascular involvement indicates that the blood vessel walls in the papillary dermis are the primary tissues affected during an acute photoreaction. The repeated acute damage and repair processes in the basement membrane zone result in thickening of the vessel walls. Perivascular deposits are a secondary and irreversible phenomenon resulting from the leakage and accumulation of different serum components. These changes were not found in the nonexposed skin, indicating that an increased level of erythrocyte protoporphyrin per se is not responsible for the cutaneous manifestations, but the interaction of solar radiation is mandatory. Amorphous deposits distinguish EPP from variegate porphyria and porphyria cutanea tarda; a histopathologic examination may be a helpful tool in differentiating porphyric and nonporphyric photosensitivity.
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- K Timonen
- Department of Dermatology, Divisions of Endocrinology and Nephrology, University Hospital of Helsinki, Finland
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Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an inherited inborn error of porphyrin metabolism caused by decreased activity of the enzyme ferrochelatase, the terminal enzyme of the haem biosynthetic pathway, which catalyses the insertion of iron into protoporphyrin to form haem. EPP is characterized clinically by photosensitivity to visible light commencing in childhood, and biochemically by elevated red cell protoporphyrin levels. Although the majority of papers and reviews have classified EPP as an autosomal dominant disorder, the inheritance has now been shown to be more complex, and both autosomal dominant and recessive patterns of inheritance have been demonstrated using ferrochelatase activity. Further molecular studies should clarify the exact mode of inheritance. It seems likely that in the majority of families a defective allele from the apparently normal parent will be required for disease expression, but another possibility is autosomal dominant inheritance with low clinical penetrance. Exposure to bright sunlight, for as little as a few minutes in the worst affected patients, causes burning pain in exposed skin, which may be so severe and persistent that it prevents sleep for several nights. Patients usually attempt to relieve the pain by cold water or cold compresses. Apart from sun avoidance, the mainstay of prophylactic treatment has been beta-carotene. Although the published evidence for the effectiveness of beta-carotene is impressive, no controlled trials using adequate doses have been performed to unequivocally confirm its usefulness. The most serious complication of EPP is acute hepatic failure, which is due to accumulation of protoporphyrin in the liver. If jaundice develops, a rapidly fatal outcome often follows, unless liver transplantation is undertaken. Regular monitoring of liver function and red cell porphyrin levels is advisable, but this does not always identify patients before serious liver damage has occurred. Even when patients are identified at an early stage in the development of liver disease the therapeutic options available to prevent further damage are limited, and have not been fully evaluated. The gene for ferrochelatase has been cloned, sequenced and mapped to the long arm of chromosome 18. As mutations continue to be identified, phenotype/genotype correlations should become apparent, and it may eventually be possible to identify those patients at risk of developing hepatic failure. In addition, as the basic enzymatic defect in EPP is at the level of the bone marrow stem cells, which are the target cells of choice in the development of retroviral-mediated gene transfer, definitive treatment of EPP by gene therapy is a distinct hope for the future.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- D J Todd
- Department of Dermatology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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We reviewed the histologic and direct immunofluorescence findings in skin biopsy specimens from 24 patients with cutaneous porphyrias. The histopathologic changes were characterized by cell-poor subepidermal bullae, festooning of dermal papillae, thickening and hyalinization of dermal blood vessel walls, dermal sclerosis, and a mild perivascular infiltration of mononuclear cells in the upper dermis. The characteristic pattern on direct immunofluorescence testing was fluorescence of thickened doughnut-like blood vessels in the upper dermis, reflecting deposition of immunoglobulins and C3, and deposition of immunoglobulins or C3 or both at the dermal-epidermal junction in most cases. These findings are characteristic but not specific for the porphyrias; they may also be observed in the pseudoporphyria syndromes and in other clinical settings. However, the immunopathologic findings are distinctive enough to be useful in differentiating the porphyrias and pseudoporphyria syndromes from other subepidermal bullous diseases such as epidermolysis bullosa acquisita and bullous pemphigoid. The most important diagnostic test in the evaluation of the cutaneous porphyrias still is measurement of porphyrins in urine, stool, and blood.
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- B Maynard
- Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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Timonen K, Niemi KM, Mustajoki P, Tenhunen R. Skin changes in variegate porphyria. Clinical, histopathological, and ultrastructural study. Arch Dermatol Res 1990; 282:108-14. [PMID: 2353826 DOI: 10.1007/bf00493468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The skin of 20 patients with variegate porphyria (VP) was studied using light, fluorescent, and electron microscopy. Twelve patients had skin symptoms and markedly increased fecal protoporphyrin excretion. Their sun-exposed skin was characterized by homogeneous PAS-positive thickening and IgG deposition in the vessel walls. The basic ultrastructural change was thickening of the vascular walls caused by reduplication of the basal lamina and perivascular deposition of amorphous material. Qualitatively similar but less prominent histopathological changes occurred in sun-protected skin in some of the patients. Six patients had no skin symptoms but an increased porphyrin excretion. The light microscopical changes were comparable to those in the patients with skin symptoms, but the ultrastructural changes were less severe. No abnormal histopathological changes occurred in two symptomless patients who had low lymphocyte protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity but normal fecal porphyrin excretion. These results show that the primary site of skin damage in VP is the vessel wall, and that histopathological changes of the skin also occur in porphyric patients who have never had skin symptoms. Factors determining the occurrence of skin symptoms in VP are discussed.
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- K Timonen
- Department of Dermatology, University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Braverman IM. Ultrastructure and organization of the cutaneous microvasculature in normal and pathologic states. J Invest Dermatol 1989; 93:2S-9S. [PMID: 2666519 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12580893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The cutaneous microvasculature is organized into upper and lower horizontal plexuses with the dermal capillary loops arising from the upper plexus. The arteriolar and venular sides of the microvasculature can be identified by the ultrastructure of the mural basement membrane material. Collecting venules present in the lower dermis contain valves. Periadventitial cells (veil cells) are present around all microvessels. Their size and number appear to correlate with the quantity of mural basement membrane material found in cutaneous vessels in diabetes, actinic damage, and chronological aging. The contractile cells of the vascular wall surround the endothelial cell tube in a manner suggesting specific functions. The smooth muscle cells in the arteriolar segment form a sleeve, whereas each pericyte in the postcapillary venular simultaneously makes many contacts with several underlying endothelial cells. The common telangiectases can be explained by abnormalities in this organization and ultrastructure rather than by neovascularization or random anastomoses. The macular telangiectases seen in scleroderma, generalized essential telangiectasia, and nevus flammeus are produced by dilatation of the postcapillary venules of the upper horizontal plexus. Cherry angiomas are produced by spherical and tubular dilatations of capillary loops in dermal papillae with tortuous cross-connections between individual loops. Angiokeratomas of Fabry and Fordyce have the ultrastructure of collecting venules that contain valves, and appear to represent the ectopic development or placement of small valve-containing collecting veins. The cutaneous lesions of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia represent arteriovenous communications.
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- I M Braverman
- Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
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Rappersberger K, Hönigsmann H, Ortel B, Tanew A, Konrad K, Wolff K. Photosensitivity and hyperpigmentation in amiodarone-treated patients: incidence, time course, and recovery. J Invest Dermatol 1989; 93:201-9. [PMID: 2754275 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12277571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Amiodarone (AD) induces photosensitivity in 75% of the patients treated with this drug. Phototoxic reactions can be experimentally elicited with UVA but not with UVB. The UVA-MED is significantly reduced after 12 months of treatment. The development of photosensitivity depends on the total dose of AD; 40 g is the minimal cumulative dose requirement. Under the regimens commonly used, photosensitivity can be expected after 4 months of continuous AD treatment and appears to be unrelated to the skin type. Photosensitivity gradually decreases and returns to normal between 4 and 12 months after the withdrawal of AD. AD-related hyperpigmentation develops after an average of 20 months of continuous AD treatment and a minimal total dose of 160 g AD in about 8% of the patients (mainly of skin type I). Electron microscopic examination of the sun-exposed skin of patients without AD discoloration shows pigment deposits similar to those already described in patients with AD hyperpigmentation in exposed and non-exposed skin. Light and electronmicroscopic examination of sun-exposed skin of both clinically photosensitive and non-photosensitive patients reveals perivascular inflammation even in the absence of a clinical rash. Reduplications of vascular basal laminae occur in sun-exposed skin of both patients with and without UVA photosensitivity but are absent from non-exposed skin. In one patient, followed for 33 months after drug withdrawal, massive AD-induced hyperpigmentation was found to be reversible.
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- K Rappersberger
- Department of Dermatology I, University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria
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Murphy GM, Wright J, Nicholls DS, McKee PH, Messenger AG, Hawk JL, Levene GM. Sunbed-induced pseudoporphyria. Br J Dermatol 1989; 120:555-62. [PMID: 2730845 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1989.tb01331.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The clinical details of four fair-skinned women with recurrent blistering and skin fragility are presented. All had considerable sun-exposure and had used sunbeds for years. Specific causes of bullous dermatoses including drug ingestion, porphyria, cutaneous amyloidosis and epidermolysis bullosa acquisita were excluded. Long-term recurrent exposure to high doses of sunbed radiation in chronically sun-damaged skin appears to be a further cause of pseudoporphyria.
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- G M Murphy
- St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London, U.K
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Matsubara T, Ziff M. Basement membrane thickening of postcapillary venules and capillaries in rheumatoid synovium. Immunoelectron microscopic and electron microscopic morphometric analysis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1987; 30:18-30. [PMID: 3545222 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780300103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Pathologic changes in the basement membrane (BM) of postcapillary venules (PCV) and capillaries in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovium were studied by immunoelectron microscopy, using a monoclonal antibody against human type IV collagen, C(IV)22, and by electron microscopic morphometric analysis. The sublining region of RA synovium was classified into lymphocyte-rich areas, transitional areas, and interstitial areas, according to their pattern of cellular infiltration. In lymphocyte-rich areas, the BM of the PCV and capillaries were minimally thickened; disruption of the lamina densa was seldom seen. Transitional areas, which contained macrophages, lymphocytes, and plasma cells, had numerous PCV and capillaries. The BM was markedly thickened and partially multilamellated, and there were many disruptions in the lamina densa. The BM contained degenerated endothelial cells and cell debris. On immunostaining of this BM with monoclonal antibody C(IV)22, type IV collagen stained heavily, mainly in the disrupted lamina densa; this indicates that the thickening was, at least in part, the result of an increase in BM collagen. In uninfiltrated interstitial areas, BM were moderately thickened and multilamellated, and showed few disruptions of the lamina densa; there were similar increases in type IV collagen, but cell debris was seldom observed. Measurement of the BM width, the ratio of BM width to vessel diameter, and the fraction of vascular cross-sectional area occupied by BM demonstrated that the thickness of the BM of both PCV and capillaries was greatest in transitional areas and was smallest in lymphocyte-rich areas (P less than 0.01). Since macrophages and macrophage-derived factors have been found to promote synthesis of BM collagen type IV, and since transitional and interstitial areas are rich in macrophages and histiocytes, respectively, it is suggested that these mononuclear cells and the factors secreted by them play a significant role in the thickening of the BM of PCV and capillaries in RA synovitis.
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Honda T, Nonaka S, Murayama F, Ohgami T, Yoshida H. Induction of chronic skin changes in intraperitoneally hematoporphyrin-injected mice with metal halide lamp irradiation. J Dermatol 1986; 13:426-32. [PMID: 3549820 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1986.tb02970.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Braverman IM, Sibley J, Keh-Yen A. A study of the veil cells around normal, diabetic, and aged cutaneous microvessels. J Invest Dermatol 1986; 86:57-62. [PMID: 3745935 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12283816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The veil cells around normal, diabetic, and aged vessels were reconstructed in 3 dimensions by a computer graphics system from 120-140 serial ultrathin sections. The normal vessel was surrounded by a single layer of veil cells which had a wrinkled and pleated surface. The diabetic vessels were surrounded by 3-6 layers of cellular material produced by increased numbers of veil cells and their associated cytoplasmic sheets. The veil cells around aged vessels appeared to have the same length as young and diabetic veil cells but were underdeveloped in their lateral extensions so that they did not cover the vessel circumferentially as well as did the normal veil cells. Preliminary data suggest that young, diabetic, and aged veil cells have the same metabolic activity per unit area of cytoplasm and are of the same length. The abnormal thickness or thinness of the vascular wall of dermal microvessels appears to be related to the degree of development and numbers of veil cells around the vessels rather than any change in their basic metabolic activity from normal.
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Weber L, Wick G, Gebhart W, Krieg T, Timpl R. Basement membrane components outline the tumour islands in cylindroma. Br J Dermatol 1984; 111:45-51. [PMID: 6331488 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1984.tb04015.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The main histological feature of cylindroma is the deposition of sheaths of a 'hyalinized' material contiguous to the tumour cell clusters. Although ultrastructural studies of this material have revealed a basement membrane-like structure, its exact nature has remained unclear. Using immuno-staining with affinity-purified antibodies directed against distinct basement membrane components, we have shown that type IV collagen and laminin are major constituents of this zone. In addition, cell culture studies indicated that both proteins are synthesized by the tumour cells. The immunohistological data make it clear that the tumour matrix between the tumour cell islands is composed not only of basement membrane components, but also is composed of other connective tissue constituents, i.e. type I and III collagen and fibronectin.
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Fleischmajer R, Krieg T, Dziadek M, Altchek D, Timpl R. Ultrastructure and composition of connective tissue in hyalinosis cutis et mucosae skin. J Invest Dermatol 1984; 82:252-8. [PMID: 6199434 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12260200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Skin biopsies from a patient with hyalinosis cutis et mucosae (HCM) were studied by routine histology, electron microscopy, biochemical extractions, and immunofluorescence for extracellular matrix proteins. The upper dermis consisted of large hyaline regions mainly composed of noncollagenous proteins. A portion of this material was solubilized by reduction in 8 M urea. Anti-sera against these proteins revealed multiple antigens most of which were also detectable in normal skin. The hyaline regions showed a reduced content of collagens, particularly of thick fibrils and of fibronectin. The basal lamina around capillaries and at the dermal-epidermal junction appeared as multiple, concentric layers of amorphous laminae intercalated with thin collagen fibrils. They consisted of collagens type III and IV and of laminin as shown by immunofluorescence. Antibodies could also be raised against laminin of HCM skin which showed strong cross-reactions with authentic mouse laminin. Cultured fibroblasts from the HCM lesion showed increased synthesis of noncollagenous proteins at the expense of newly synthesized collagens. Some but not all of these noncollagenous proteins were also produced by fibroblasts from normal skin. The above data indicate that the hyaline material in HCM originates from the overproduction of noncollagenous proteins, most of which are normal constituents of human skin.
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Wick G, Munro V, Gebhart W, Timpl R. Basement membrane-producing tumors as antigenic substrate for the demonstration of anti-basement membrane antibodies. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1983; 420:267-74. [PMID: 6372594 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1983.tb22212.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Breathnach SM, Bhogal B, de Beer FC, Melrose SM, Black MM, Pepys MB. Immunohistochemical studies of amyloid P component and fibronectin in erythropoietic protoporphyria. Br J Dermatol 1983; 108:267-75. [PMID: 6338898 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1983.tb03964.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Immunofluorescence staining of exposed skin from patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) with antibodies to serum amyloid P component (SAP) and to fibronectin produced striking fluorescence of abnormal vascular structures in the upper dermis. An appearance of linear fluorescence along the dermo-epidermal junction with anti-SAP was the result of confluent staining of papillary oxytalan fibres. Amyloid P component (AP) was localized in ultrastructural immunoperoxidase studies to the peripheral (abluminal) regions of thickened dermal vessel walls, the site of maximum concentration of an amorphous matrix containing microfibrillar structures; antibodies to SAP did not bind to leaflets of the reduplicated vascular basal lamina. The characteristic thickening and reduplication of blood vessel walls seen with the electron microscope in EPP therefore involves increased local deposition of both AP and fibronectin.
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Storch WB. Immunohistochemical demonstration of human circulating antibodies against lamina propria of gastric mucosa. Acta Histochem 1983; 72:203-10. [PMID: 6410663 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-1281(83)80056-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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This paper describes a fluorescent pattern of human antibodies circulating in the serum of a 57 year old patient with lymphogranulomatosis. Following incubation with different FITC-labeled anti-human IgG sera including F(ab)2-fragments and with antibodies to human IgA, IgM, IgD, IgE as well as guinea pig serum and FITC-labeled anti-guinea pig serum (for proof the complement binding), it can be assumed that this is a non complement binding IgG antibody directed first of all against the rat gastric mucosal lamina propria (in the cardia and corpus and weaker in the pylorus region). The titre was 1:640. 1:80 diluted serum did not react with duodenum, jejunum, colon, tongue, oesophagus, parotid gland, trachea, lung, heart, diaphragm, liver, spleen, or kidneys. Among others, the species specificity and the antigen binding sides remain to establish.
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Matsubara T, Velvart M, Odermatt BF, Spycher MA, Rüttner JR, Fehr K. The thickening of basement membrane in synovial capillaries in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int 1983; 3:57-64. [PMID: 6622923 DOI: 10.1007/bf00541145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Synovial tissues from seven rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were used for the ultrastructural investigation of capillary cellular components and basement membranes (BM). Attention has been specially paid to the mechanism of BM thickening of the capillaries in the inflammatory sites. The capillary BM were multilamellated in the inflammatory sites. The multilamellation was characteristic not only in the BM surrounding the endothelial cells and pericytes but also in the BM between these two types of cells. Cell debris was frequently encountered between the multilamellated BM. The hyperplasia and various stages of degeneration of the endothelial cells were observed in these regions. Some endothelial cells were activated and occasionally located in capillaries containing degenerated endothelial cells. The high incidence of these findings indicates the following hypotheses. The accelerated rate of death and replenishment of capillary cellular components may play a role in BM thickening in the inflammatory sites of RA synovium. These cells may not only produce one layer of BM in their life-time but may also be activated to produce excessive amounts of BM components to make several layers.
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Weber L, Krieg T, Müller PK, Kirsch E, Timpl R. Immunofluorescent localization of type IV collagen and laminin in human skin and its application in junctional zone pathology. Br J Dermatol 1982; 106:267-73. [PMID: 7039655 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1982.tb01722.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Purified antibodies against type IV collagen and laminin were used ot localize basement membranes by indirect immunofluorescence in various anatomical regions of normal and diseased human skin. The two proteins showed extensive codistribution. A continuous linear staining was found along the epidermal-dermal junction and around hair follicles, sebaceous gland acini and small capillaries. The same proteins also surrounded individual cells such as those found in vessels, hair erector muscles and subcutaneous tissue. Blister formation in bullous pemphigoi left type IV collagen and laminin on the floor of the blister, while the bullous pemphigoid antigen as detected by human autoantibodies was found on both sides of the blister. In solid basal cell carcinoma a strong staining was found around all tumour islands as well as focally within the cell clusters. This suggests that the tumour cells produce these basement membrane proteins but have lost, at least in part, control of polar deposition.
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Breathnach SM, Bhogal B, Dyck RF, De Beer FC, Black MM, Pepys MB. Immunohistochemical demonstration of amyloid P component in skin of normal subjects and patients with cutaneous amyloidosis. Br J Dermatol 1981; 105:115-24. [PMID: 7025878 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1981.tb01195.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The presence of amyloid P component (AP) in dermal deposits of cutaneous amyloidosis was demonstrated by a direct immunofluorescence technique using an antibody to serum amyloid P component (SAP). AP was also shown, for the first time, to be a constituent of normal human skin. It was present at the periphery of dermal elastic tissue fibres, in basement membranes of dermal blood vessels and surrounding eccrine sweat glands but was absent from the dermo-epidermal basement membrane. The staining pattern in cutaneous amyloidosis was morphologically distinctive and readily distinguishable from staining of thickened vascular basement membranes in porphyria. Immunofluorescence with anti-SAP is simple and specific and may become the procedure of choice in the differential diagnosis of amyloidosis.
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Risteli L, Timpl R. Isolation and characterization of pepsin fragments of laminin from human placental and renal basement membranes. Biochem J 1981; 193:749-55. [PMID: 6796051 PMCID: PMC1162663 DOI: 10.1042/bj1930749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The presence of laminin in authentic basement membranes was examined at the level of a large pepsin-resistant fragment P1. This strongly antigenic fragment has been recently isolated from a mouse tumour basement membrane. By using antibodies to mouse laminin P1 for identification it was possible to isolate a homologous fragment P1 (Mr about 250 000) and a related component Pa (Mr about 70 000--90 000) from pepsin digests of human placenta and kidney. The fragments were in half-cystine (90--130 residues/1000) and carbohydrate and showed strong binding to concanavalin A. Reduction of disulphide bonds produced several smaller peptide chains, indicating a complex pepsin cleavage. Immunological assays demonstrated partial antigenic identity between laminin fragments obtained from mouse and human tissue, and suggested that fragment Pa may originate from a protein not completely identical with laminin. The results showed that laminin is an abundant component of tissue rich in basement membranes, which has been previously suggested by immunohistological studies.
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von der Mark K. Localization of collagen types in tissues. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE RESEARCH 1981; 9:265-324. [PMID: 6175597 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-363709-3.50012-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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