Prolonged Clinical Remission of Patients with Severe Pemphigus upon Rapid Removal of Desmoglein-Reactive Autoantibodies by Immunoadsorption

Autoantibodies against a novel epithelial cadherin in pemphigus vulgaris, a disease of cell adhesion

Masayuki Amagai, Vera Klaus-Kovtun, John R. Stanley · Cell · 1991 · 1K citations

Autoimmune Disease, Autoantibody Production, Cell Adhesion +13

Induction of Pemphigus in Neonatal Mice by Passive Transfer of IgG from Patients with the Disease

Grant J. Anhalt, Ramzy S. Labib, John J. Voorhees et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1982 · 670 citations

Absorption of pathogenic autoantibodies by the extracellular domain of pemphigus vulgaris antigen (Dsg3) produced by baculovirus.

Masayuki Amagai, Takashi Hashimoto, Nobutaka Shimizu et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1994 · 316 citations · Full text

Authentic Pva, Extracellular Domain, Immunodeficiencies +17

Antigen-Specific Immunoadsorption of Pathogenic Autoantibodies in Pemphigus Foliaceus

Masayuki Amagai, Takashi Hashimoto, Kathleen J. Green et al. · Journal of Investigative Dermatology · 1995 · 251 citations · Full text

Autoimmune Disease, Autoantibody Production, Pathogenesis +8

Correlation of peptide specificity and IgG subclass with pathogenic and nonpathogenic autoantibodies in pemphigus vulgaris: a model for autoimmunity.

Kailash C. Bhol, Kannan Natarajan, Neville Nagarwalla et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1995 · 202 citations · Full text