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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1975-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
Experimental animal models of the two forms of toxic epidermal necrolysis have been reviewed: a murine model of staphylococcal-induced epidermolysis and a hamster model of graft-versus-host disease. In the former, a protein exotoxin, epidermolysin, has been purified and characterized. The exotoxin has a molecular weight of approximately 30,000 and causes a split beneath the granular layer. It is effective at 3 times 10(-12) moles. Epidermolysin does not require an intact complement system for its action since B10D2 mice deficient in C5 or mice injected with the decomplementing agent in cobra venom factor were susceptible to its epidermolytic effects. Neither are immunocompetent thymocytes required for the action of the toxin since hairless, athymic adult (nu/nu) mice are susceptible. A few reports of epidermolysis due to an exotoxin of group I Staphylococcus aureus have appeared. This toxin is antigenically different from the exotoxin of group II organisms. A model of drug-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis has been described in hamsters, but the toxic principle released from sensitized lymphoid cells has not yet been characterized.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-202X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
191-200
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:239071-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Child, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Chromatography, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Complement System Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Cutis Laxa, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Electrophoresis, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Graft vs Host Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Skin, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Staphylococcal Toxoid, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Staphylococcus Phages, pubmed-meshheading:239071-Thymus Gland
pubmed:year
1975
pubmed:articleTitle
Studies of the mechanism of epidermal injury by a Staphylococcal epidermolytic toxin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.