Immunological skin diseases: Boundaries and relationships
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About half of skin diseases are immune-related. Immunological skin diseases are crudely divided into infectious, allergic, autoimmune and other types based on the etiology, pathogenesis and immune responses. While their distinction is not absolute, cause-effect and inter-relationship exist among them. This review focuses on the intrinsic associations among different categories of skin immune diseases, in the aim to help in the understanding and investigation of etiological factors and interventional strategies for skin immune diseases.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015