Iretiolu Mayokun Ogunsulire

Depletion of regulatory T cells breaks self-tolerance and induces epidermolysis bullosa acquisita in resistant C57BL/6J mice

Pemphigoid diseases (PDs) are antibody-mediated autoimmune blistering diseases caused by loss of tolerance to basement membrane proteins such as type VII collagen (COL7), triggering pathogenic T and B cell responses. The contribution of regulatory T cells (T regs ) to disease res...