Auto-immune diseases are caused by the body's immune response to its own tissues/tissue components either by producing auto-antibodies or by increased production of the immune system cells. There are many autoimmune diseases affecting the human population all over the world. These diseases may be...
Genome-wide association studies are transformative in revealing the polygenetic basis of common diseases, with autoimmune diseases leading the charge. Although the field is just over 10 years old, advances in understanding the underlying mechanistic pathways of these conditions, which result from a dens...
Comparable to influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2 might also indirectly trigger myocarditis through cytokinemediated cardiotoxicity in severely diseased patients, or by triggering an autoimmune response against components of the heart.46,47 In some young men, myocarditis was found to occur in association with...
The passive transfer of autoantibodies obtained from human patients to animals has been used to establish models of autoimmune etiology so far; for instance, myasthenic (and Lambert-Eaton) syndrome (Lang et al., 1981, Takamori et al., 1994), cerebellar ataxia (Sillevis Smitt et al., 2000),...
The term autoinflammation was coined with the intent of distinguishing this category of illnesses from the more commonly recognized autoimmune inflammatory diseases that are largely mediated by effectors of the adaptive immune system, namely autoreactive T cells and autoantibodies. Autoinflammatory syndromes...
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Alopecia areatais an autoimmune disease of the skin and its outgrowth (hair). In this case, the body’s immune system wages a war against the hair follicles. The result is hair loss that occurs in round patches, most often on the scalp. In this case, the real problem is not so much...
Animal studies have confirmed that modulation of gut microbiota during the early-life period, in utero or perinatal, is crucial for influencing the development of inflammatory, autoimmune, and atopic diseases (Hansen et al., 2012, Hu et al., 2015, Hu et al., 2016, Olszak et al., 2012, ...
This includes children, the elderly, those with an immune-compromising disease or condition (like HIV), those taking immunosuppressive drugs (such as in the treatment of an autoimmune disease or after an organ transplant), and people undergoing cancer treatment. Causes and Risk Factors of ...