Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 2 - Number: 15 - September 15, 2003

Outstanding

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

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

T-cell activation without proliferation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

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

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

GAD65-reactive T cells are activated in patients with autoimmune type 1a diabetes

Genetic analysis of autoantibodies in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura reveals evidence of clonal expansion and somatic mutation

High-dose cyclophosphamide for refractory autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Autoimmune Vasculitis

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

Immunology

Lack of autoantibody production associated with cytomegalovirus infection

Immunology and Autoimmunity

A full complement of receptors in immune complex diseases

Lupus

Prolactin modulates the naive B cell repertoire and experimental lupus

Meetings and Congress

I latinoamerican congress in autoimmunity. Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) September 2003

News Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases

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

Wegener's Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial (WGET)

Sjögren Syndrome

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

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in an Adolescent

Systemic Sclerosis

High-dose immunosuppressive therapy for severe systemic sclerosis: initial outcomes

Vasculitis

Pulmonary Vasculitis: A Clinical overview.