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BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
Volume 142, Issue 5, Pages 954-959Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2000.03477.x
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IgM monoclonal gammopathy; immunoblotting; immunoelectron microscopy; Schnitzler syndrome
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The Schnitzler syndrome is the association of chronic urticaria, intermittent fever, osteosclerotic bone lesions and a monoclonal IgM gammopathy, It is not yet firmly established whether the monoclonal immunoglobulin component plays a part in the pathophysiology of the urticarial lesions. Immunoblotting on epidermal and dermal human skin extracts as well as immunoelectron microscopic (IEM) studies on Lowicryl K4M-embedded skin sections were performed in three patients with the Schnitzler syndrome. Western blotting on epidermal extracts showed the presence of IgM-kappa antiskin autoantibodies in two patients, These antibodies displayed the same isotype as the monoclonal components and recognized a 280-290-kDa antigen in one patient and a 100-kDa antigen in the other patient. IEM studies showed sparse IgM deposits in the epidermis, around the keratinocytes, near the desmosomes in one patient and dense deposits below the lamina densa, in the region of the anchoring fibrils, in another patient. Antiskin IgM autoantibodies of the same isotype as their monoclonal gammopathies can be present in the serum of some patients with the Schnitzler syndrome, These IgM antibodies seem to deposit in vivo in the epidermis and at the dermal-epidermal junction, in the region of the anchoring fibrils. These findings suggest that the monoclonal gammopathy prays a part in the pathophysiology of the skin rash, They also suggest patient heterogeneity both in the skin antigens that are recognized as well as in their localization.
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