Authors: Laure Delavalle ab; Eric Assier ab; Anne Denys ab; Graldine Falgarone abc; Jean-Franois Zagury d; Sylvianne Muller e; Natacha Bessis ab; Marie-Christophe ...
Researchers from Saint Louis University report that a pile-up of superfluous immune cells might contribute to lupus, a finding which could point to new therapies for the autoimmune disease. "We're on ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – An international consortium of scientists has identified multiple genes that are linked to systemic lupus erythematosus, a devastating autoimmune disease that affects between 1 ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – New research provides clues about the causes of lupus symptoms and suggests specific new targeted treatment strategies, according to Nilamadham Mishra, M.D., from Wake ...
Abstract Purpose: Evaluation of ocular surface disease index (OSDI) questionnaire for the diagnosis of dry eye syndrome. Methods: Sixty-eight patients admitted to the Ophthalmology Polyclinic of ...
OBJECTIVE To address whether or not the rarity of amyloidosis in Greek patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is related to specific alleles of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ...
Abstract Complement activation contributes to a pathological process in a number of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this review we summarize current ...
ABSTRACT & BACKGROUND We investigated circulating interleukin-18 concentrations in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (ASV) and healthy control subjects, and included a group of ...
ABSTRACT & BACKGROUND Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease with autoantibodies as a near universal feature of the disease. Earlier investigations from our ...
ABSTRACT & BACKGROUND: Proteinase 3 (PR3)-specific antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (PR3-ANCA) recognize conformational epitopes on PR3. This study evaluates PR3-ANCA target epitopes ...
ABSTRACT & BACKGROUND We have reported that Sjögren's syndrome (SS) patients with enlarged exocrine glands (EEG) formerly referred to as Mikulicz's disease were defective with Fas-ligand (FasL) ...
LUIS A. GONZÁLEZ, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 834 Faculty Office Tower, 510 – 20th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA; GRACIELA S. ...
A human peptide that acts as a natural antibiotic against invading microbes can also bind to the body’s own DNA and trigger an immune response in the absence of an infection, a research team led by ...
A gene discovered by scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been linked to lupus and related autoimmune diseases. The finding, reported in the current issue of Nature Genetics, ...
Objectives: Thromboembolic episodes are frequent manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although the presence of anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPL) is known to contribute to ...