Anti-epiligrin cicatricial pemphigoid and epidermolysis bullosa acquisita: Differentiation by use of indirect immunofluorescence microscopy

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Vodegel ◽  
Marcelus C.J.M. de Jong ◽  
Hendri H. Pas ◽  
Kim B. Yancey ◽  
Marcel F. Jonkman
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Immunofluorescence ◽  
Epidermolysis Bullosa ◽  
Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita ◽  
Cicatricial Pemphigoid ◽  
Indirect Immunofluorescence Microscopy

scholarly journals Localization of protein disulfide isomerase to the external surface of the platelet plasma membrane

Blood ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 2168-2173 ◽  
Author(s):  
DW Essex ◽  
K Chen ◽  
M Swiatkowska
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Immunofluorescence ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Disulfide Bonds ◽  
Protein Disulfide Isomerase ◽  
Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
External Surface ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
Disulfide Isomerase ◽  
Indirect Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Protein Disulfide

Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) is an enzyme that catalyzes the formation as well as the isomerization of disulfide bonds. In this study, antibodies against PDI were used to show PDI antigen on the platelet surface by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy and by flow cytometry. The platelets were not activated, as evidenced by the absence of staining by an antibody against P-selectin. Permeabilized platelets showed little cytosolic PDI by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy, suggesting that the majority of platelet PDI is localized to the platelet surface. PDI activity against “scrambled” RNase was shown with intact platelets. The activity was inhibited by inhibitors of PDI and by an antibody against PDI. Other blood cells showed little PDI. Platelet surface PDI may play a role in the various physiological and pathophysiologic processes in which platelets are involved.

Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita with Combined Features of Bullous Pemphigoid and Cicatricial Pemphigoid

Dermatology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 198 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Wieme ◽  
J. Lambert ◽  
M. Moerman ◽  
M.L. Geerts ◽  
L. Temmerman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bullous Pemphigoid ◽  
Epidermolysis Bullosa ◽  
Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita ◽  
Cicatricial Pemphigoid ◽  
Combined Features

Non-plasmalemmal localisation of the major ganglioside in sea urchin eggs

Zygote ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidehiko Shogomori ◽  
Kazuyoshi Chiba ◽  
Hideo Kubo ◽  
Motonori Hoshi
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Sea Urchin ◽  
Indirect Immunofluorescence ◽  
Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Mitotic Apparatus ◽  
Sea Urchin Eggs ◽  
Indirect Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
The One ◽  
Major Ganglioside ◽  
Hemicentrotus Pulcherrimus

SummaryM5 ganglioside (NeuGcα2–6Glcβl-' Cer) is the predominant glycosphingolipid in sea urchin eggs. Distribution of M5 ganglioside was studied in unfertilised and fertilised eggs of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy. In the cortices of unfertilised eggs, anti-M5 antibody strongly stained the submembranous, polygonal and tubular network of endoplasmic reticulum that was revealed by a membrane-staining dye, DiIC18(3). In addition to the cortical network of endoplasmic reticulum, at least two morphologically distinct vesicles were positive to the antibody. In the cortices isolated from fertilised eggs 30 min after insemination, the antibody stained only a similar network of endoplasmic reticulum, presumably the one reconstructed 5–10 min after fertilisation. During mitosis the endoplasmic reticulum is known to aggregate within the asters of the mitotic apparatus. Indeed, the antibody stained the asters and (more strongly) the vesicular components attaching to the periphery of the mitotic apparatus.

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