Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 2 - Number: 11 - February 15, 2003

Outstanding

Lymphomas complicating Sjögren's syndrome and hepatitis C virus infection may share a common pathogenesis: chronic stimulation of rheumatoid factor B cells

True Primary Sjogren's Syndrome in a Subset of Patients with Hepatitis C Infection: A Model to Link Chronic Infection to Chronic Sialadenitis

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

The intricate interplay among body weight, stress, and the immune response to friend or foe

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Circulating cytotoxic CD8+ CD28- T cells in ankylosing spondylitis

Arthritis

Anti-TNF-? antibody allows healing of joint damage in polyarthritic transgenic mice

T-cell activation without proliferation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Th1 and Th2 cytokines regulate proteoglycan-specific autoantibody isotypes and arthritis

Autoimmune Disease Organs Specific

Enterocolitis induced by autoimmune targeting of enteric glial cells: A possible mechanism in Crohn

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) limits the expansion of encephalitogenic T cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)-resistant BALB/c mice

Vaccination, prevention, and treatment of experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN) by an oligomerized T cell epitope

Impaired apoptosis, extended duration of immune responses, and a lupus-like autoimmune disease in IEX-1-transgenic mice

Enumerating autoreactive T cells in peripheral blood: a big step in diabetes prediction

Activation and Differentiation of Autoreactive B-1 Cells by Interleukin 10 Induce Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in Fas-deficient Antierythrocyte Immunoglobulin Transgenic Mice

Anti-DNA antibodies are a major component of the intrathecal B cell response in multiple sclerosis

Thyroid autoimmunity

Bcl-2–dependent oxidation of pyruvate dehydrogenase-E2, a primary biliary cirrhosis autoantigen, during apoptosis

Suppression of experimental autoimmune neuritis by leflunomide

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

The intricate interplay among body weight, stress, and the immune response to friend or foe

Enterocolitis induced by autoimmune targeting of enteric glial cells: A possible mechanism in Crohn's disease?

Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome Type 2 in a Case Presenting as Meningitis-like Picture.

Diagnosis Of Leg Ulcers.

Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy (Celiac Disease): More Common Than You Think

Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity to IV spectrin in paraneoplastic lower motor neuron syndrome

Clinical Assay in Development

Pilot Trial of Rituximab (Rituxan) in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (Wegener's Granulomatosis and Microscopic Polyangiitis)

Wegener's Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial (WGET)

Dermatology and Autoimmunity

The melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1, a novel target of autoantibody responses in vitiligo

The Transcription Factors SOX9 and SOX10 Are Vitiligo Autoantigens in Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type I*

Local Immune Response in Skin of Generalized Vitiligo Patients Destruction of Melanocytes is Associated with the Prominent Presence of CLA+ T Cells at the Perilesional Site

A monoclonal thyroid-stimulating antibody

Autoimmune Melanocyte Destruction in Vitiligo

Melanocyte Destruction after Antigen-specific Immunotherapy of Melanoma: Direct Evidence of T Cell–mediated Vitiligo

Direct Evidence to Support the Role of Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells in Melanoma-Associated Vitiligo

Immunology

Toward a new generation of vaccines: The anti-cytokine therapeutic vaccines

Immunobiology of Dendritic Cells

Lack of autoantibody production associated with cytomegalovirus infection

Immunology and Autoimmunity

A full complement of receptors in immune complex diseases

Immunology. Autoinmmunity?

Avoiding horror autotoxicus: The importance of dendritic cells in peripheral T cell tolerance

FC Receptor biology

Lupus

The major murine systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility locus, Sle1, is a cluster of functionally related genes

Trichostatin A reverses skewed expression of CD154, interleukin-10, and interferon- gene and protein expression in lupus T cells

Prolactin modulates the naive B cell repertoire and experimental lupus

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in an Adolescent

Meetings and Congress

I Latin-American Congress of Autoimmunity. Galapagos Islands. Ecuador. September 2003

European Congress of Reproductive Immunology. Plzen, Czech Republic, June-July 2004

Sjögren Syndrome

Lymphomas complicating Sjögren's syndrome and hepatitis C virus infection may share a common pathogenesis: chronic stimulation of rheumatoid factor B cells

Analysis of immunoglobulin light chain rearrangements in the salivary gland and blood of a patient with Sjögren's syndrome

True Primary Sjogren's Syndrome in a Subset of Patients with Hepatitis C Infection: A Model to Link Chronic Infection to Chronic Sialadenitis

The Best Unit of Autoimmune Diseases of the World

Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA

Vasculitis

Bcl-2 rearrangement in patients with chronic hepatitis C associated with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia type II

Immunological and clinical follow up of hepatitis C virus associated cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis

Proteinase-3 as the major autoantigen of c-ANCA is strongly expressed in lung tissue of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis

Pulmonary Vasculitis: A Clinical overview.