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- GENE THERAPY & ARTHRITIS: - Delivery system for gene therapy may help treat arthritis
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A DNA-covered submicroscopic bead used to deliver genes or drugs directly into cells to treat disease appears to have therapeutic value just by showing up, researchers report. ...
- AUTOANTIBODIES ANTIMELANOMA (MDA-5) EN DERMATOMIOSITIS AMYOPATHIC & LUNG DISEASE: -Disappearance of anti-MDA-5 autoantibodies in clinically amyopathic DM/interstitial lung disease during disease remission
OBJECTIVE Autoantibodies against melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA-5) are one of the serological markers for DM. Anti-MDA-5 antibodies are especially associated with rapidly ...
- AUTOIMMUNITY: -STILL's DISEASE & RECURRENT CRPS: -Still's disease and recurrent complex regional pain syndrome type-1: the first description
ABSTRACTS Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder characterized by neuropathic pain associated with local edema and changes suggestive of autonomic ...
- AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE IN JAPANESE: -Genetic factors of autoimmune thyroid diseases in japanese
ABSTRACT Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), including Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), are caused by immune response to self-thyroid antigens and affect ...
- AUTOIMMUNITY AS RESULTANT OF LOCAL CARTILAGE TRAUMA: -Local cartilage trauma as a pathogenic factor in autoimmunity (one hypothesis based on patients with relapsing polychondritis triggered by Cartilage Trauma)
ABSTRACT In the recent years, it has been of great interest to study the binding mechanism between the innate and adaptive immune responses as interrelated processes for the development of ...
- NEWS IN AUTOIMMUNE THERAPY: -New synthetic molecules treat autoimmune disease in mice
A team of Weizmann Institute scientists has turned the tables on an autoimmune disease. In such diseases, including Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system mistakenly attacks the ...
- VASCULITIS & HCV: -Regulatory T-cell responses to low-dose interleukin-2 in HCV-induced vasculitis
Interleukin-2 has been identified for its capacity to stimulate T cells in vitro1 and has been used to boost effector immune responses in patients with cancers and infectious diseases.2,3 It is ...
- TREATMENT OF LES NEPHRITIS: -Toward better treatment for lupus nephritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a prototypical autoimmune disease that can potentially involve every organ. Its clinical spectrum is therefore extremely heterogeneous and varies from relatively ...
- MEDICAL CARE IN LUPUS: -Life challenges prevent those with lupus from keeping doctors' appointments
Transportation and childcare difficulties top reasons for missed appointments The first step towards successful medical care is to see a physician, but for some patients this isn't as simple ...
- AUTOIMMUNITY: -Stress triggers disease flares in patients with vasculitis
Study shows psychological health important to controlling Wegener's granulomatosis In patients with a devastating form of vasculitis who are in remission, stress can be associated with a ...
- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS & SURGERY CARE: -Tweaking withdrawal of rheumatoid arthritis medications before surgeries may reduce disease flares
As guidelines recommend, doctors appear to be stopping anti-TNF medications before surgery, but may be doing so far sooner than is necessary, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for ...
- AUTOIMMUNITY & ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DISEASE: -Cleveland Clinic study discovers new targets for treating inflammatory, autoimmune diseases
Researchers find pathway to potentially block disease-inducing inflammation Friday, October 7, 2011, Cleveland: Researchers have discovered a cellular pathway that promotes inflammation in ...
