Fig. 1
From: The direct binding of collagen XVII and collagen IV is disrupted by pemphigoid autoantibodies
Oral lesions in MMP are less inflammatory than skin lesion in BP. a Representative histopathological findings of typical BP patients with autoantibodies against NC16A and MMP are shown. H&E staining, scale bar = 100 μm (left). The black square indicates the area of 220 × 180 μm2 under ×400 magnification high-power field (HPF), scale bare = 50 μm (right). b Comparison of the total number of infiltrating cells (upper) and percentage of eosinophils (lower) between BP (n = 6) and MMP (n = 7). The data are expressed as the mean ± S.D. Student’s t test. *0.01 < p < 0.05
