Susana Ortiz-Urda
Department of Dermatology
University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria
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- The plant lectin wheat germ agglutinin inhibits the binding of pemphigus foliaceus autoantibodies to desmoglein 1 in a majority of patients and prevents pathomechanisms of pemphigus foliaceus in vitro and in vivo. Ortiz-Urda, S., Elbe-Bürger, A., Smolle, J., Marquart, Y., Chudnovsky, Y., Ridky, T.W., Bernstein, P., Wolff, K., Rappersberger, K. J. Immunol. (2003)