As our primary interface with the outside world, the skin needs to be able to protect itself against infectious threats. Specialized cells known as Langerhans cells (LCs) (see image) are an essential ...

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that a gene long known for shaping the skin's ...

Langerhans cells (LCs) are a type of dendritic cell that characteristically express S100, CD1a, and langerin (CD207) and contain ultrastructural Birbeck granules. LC histiocytosis is a neoplastic ...

A single gene that helps form the skin’s surface also keeps crucial immune cells alive, according to new research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published in Cell Reports.

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

Fifty-four patients from 12 countries took VMF 20 mg/kg/d. They were classified according to risk organ involvement: liver, spleen, and/or blood cytopenia. The main evaluation criteria were adverse ...

The occurrence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in the skin of patients receiving bone-marrow transplants is a common and serious complication, hindering the widespread use of this procedure.

We report an unusual case of Langerhans cell granulomatosis (LCG) manifested as a villous synovial proliferation in a 38-year-old female jogger. One year after the onset of joint symptoms, she had a ...

Positron-emission tomographic (PET) images show a single bone lesion involving the humerus (Panel A, arrow); low-risk lesions involving the orbit, lymph nodes, bone (multifocal lesion), and thymus ...

Some people might say that Paul Langerhans Jr. was destined to make many contributions to medicine because he was born into a family of physicians and scientists. He made his first major contribution ...