1. Preface

   • Hideoki Ogawa

   Original Paper 28 January 2003 Pages: S1 - S1

2. Pathophysiology of generalized pustular psoriasis

   • Hajime Iizuka
   • Hidetoshi Takahashi
   • Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto

   Original Paper 25 January 2003 Pages: S55 - S59

   

3. Current and prospective understanding of clinical classification, pathomechanisms and therapy in pemphigus

   • Yasuo Kitajima

   Original Paper 15 January 2003 Pages: S17 - S23

   

4. Current status and future prospects of gene therapy technologies toward the treatment of intractable skin diseases

   • Yasufumi Kaneda
   • Katsuto Tamai

   Original Paper 15 January 2003 Pages: S63 - S66

5. Generalized pustular psoriasis: strategy for identification of psoriasis susceptibility gene

   • Masahiko Muto
   • Akiko Ohmura
   • Hideoki Ogawa

   Original Paper 25 January 2003 Pages: S60 - S62

   

6. Genetic abnormalities and clinical classification of epidermolysis bullosa

   • Yoshihiko Mitsuhashi
   • Isao Hashimoto

   Original Paper 24 January 2003 Pages: S29 - S33

   

7. The prognosis of pemphigus patients will be significantly improved in the future

   • S. Ikeda
   • E. Komiyama
   • H. Ogawa

   Short Communication 21 January 2003 Pages: S69 - S70

   

8. History of the establishment and revision of diagnostic criteria, severity index and therapeutic guidelines for pemphigus in Japan

   • Shigaku Ikeda
   • Sadao Imamura
   • Hideoki Ogawa

   Original Paper 24 January 2003 Pages: S12 - S16

   

9. Animal models of psoriasis and pustular psoriasis

   • Hitoshi Mizutani
   • Keiichi Yamanaka
   • Takaaki Murakami

   Original Paper 06 February 2003 Pages: S67 - S68

10. Japanese guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of junctional and dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

    • Katsuto Tamai
    • Isao Hashimoto
    • Hideoki Ogawa

    Original Paper 11 March 2003 Pages: S24 - S28

11. Aberrant suprabasal P-cadherin expression in acanthotic but not psoriatic thickened epidermis

    • Hisashi Wakita
    • Yuki Yamamoto
    • Fukumi Furukawa

    Short Communication 06 February 2003 Pages: S71 - S74

    

12. Epidermolysis bullosa: directions for future research and new challenges for treatment

    • Daisuke Sawamura
    • James R. McMillan
    • Hiroshi Shimizu

    Original Paper 05 March 2003 Pages: S34 - S42

    

13. Recent advances in the study of the pathophysiology of pemphigus

    • Takashi Hashimoto

    Review Article 09 January 2003 Pages: S2 - S11

    

14. Therapeutic guidelines for the treatment of generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) based on a proposed classification of disease severity

    • Y. Umezawa
    • A. Ozawa
    • S. Harada

    Original Paper 08 March 2003 Pages: S43 - S54