Helicobacter pyloriand skin autoimmune diseases

Autoimmune Skin Diseases

Bullous autoimmune skin diseases, characterized by the formation of bullae or vesicles, are divided into two groups dependent on the location of clefts and the formation of bullae within the skin. In the pemphigus group of diseases the vesicles form intradermally; in pemphigoid the clefts occur at the dermal epidermal junction. The primary lesion of pemphigus is acantholysis in which the epider...

Oral mucosal manifestations of autoimmune skin diseases.

A group of autoimmune diseases is characterised by autoantibodies against epithelial adhesion structures and/or tissue-tropic lymphocytes driving inflammatory processes resulting in specific pathology at the mucosal surfaces and the skin. The most frequent site of mucosal involvement in autoimmune diseases is the oral cavity. Broadly, these diseases include conditions affecting the cell-cell ad...

New Observations in Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases

Bullous Skin Diseases: Classical Types of Autoimmune Diseases

The prototypic bullous skin diseases, pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus, and bullous pemphigoid, are characterized by the blister formation in the skin and/or oral mucosa in combination with circulating and deposited autoantibodies reactive with (hemi)desmosomes. Koch's postulates, adapted for autoimmune diseases, were applied on these skin diseases. It appears that all adapted Koch's pos...

Evaluation of serum Prolactin levels in patients with autoimmune blistering skin diseases: A case-control study

Background: Prolactin, a neurohormone, can act as a stimulator of immunity in a number of autoimmune diseases and its high levels have been shown in these diseases. Objective: This study was designed to discover the possible role of prolactin in autoimmune blistering skin diseases. The main goal was to compare the serum prolactin levels and the frequency of hyperprolactinemia in autoimmune skin...