Cutting Edge Issues in Autoimmu ...
Autoimmune hepatitis is an inflammatory liver disease affecting mainly females and characterised histologically by interface hepatitis, biochemicall ...
Immunology, Autoimmunity, and A ...
Recent revelations of immune alterations in Parkinson’s disease have led to the convergence that an autoimmune mechanism may play a role in the etio ...
Autoimmunity and Environment: A ...
The complex interplay between environmental factors and genetic susceptibility plays an essential role in disease pathogenesis. This is especially t ...
The Challenge of Asthma in Mino ...
The burden and disparity of asthma in race/ethnic minorities present a significant challenge. In this review, we will evaluate data on asthma epidem ...
Occupational Asthma
Occupational asthma is the most common occupational lung disease. Work-aggravated asthma and occupational asthma are two forms of asthma causally re ...
The Clinical Significance of 25 ...
Reduced bone mineral density is frequently found especially in adult celiac disease (CD) and dietary guidelines favor vitamin D supplementation in a ...
Cardiovascular Risk in Rheumato ...
The pathogenesis of accelerated cardiovascular damage commonly characterizing patients affected by systemic chronic inflammatory and autoimmune rheu ...
Cutting Edge Issues in the Chur ...
Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic small-vessel vasculitis that develops in the background of bronchial asthma, which is characterized ...
The Critically Ill Asthmatic—fr ...
Status asthmaticus (SA) is defined as an acute, severe asthma exacerbation that does not respond readily to initial intensive therapy, while near-fa ...
The Clinical Significance of Co ...
Maintenance of normal blood flow requires equilibrium between procoagulant and anticoagulant factors; occasionally, procoagulant activity predominat ...
Cutting-Edge Issues in Primary ...
Several crucial issues remain open in our understanding of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), an autoimmune liver disease targeting the small- and med ...
The Role of Inflammation and Au ...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is characterized by a remodeling of pulmonary arteries with endothelial cell, fibroblast, and vascular smooth muscle ...
Therapeutic Approaches in Hered ...
Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is characterized by acute attacks of edema with multiple localizations, the laryngeal angioedema being the most potentia ...
Estrogen Receptors in Immunity ...
Due to the female predominance of autoimmune diseases, the role of gender and sex hormones in the immune system is of long-term interest. Estrogen's ...
Lupus Nephritis in Colombians: ...
Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most serious complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) since it is the major predictor of poor prognosi ...
Current Concepts on the Pathoge ...
The pathophysiology of non-traumatic osteonecrosis is more complex than that of traumatic osteonecrosis, and corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis pr ...
Intranasal Steroids in the Trea ...
While nasal congestion has been identified as one of the most bothersome and prevalent symptoms of allergic rhinitis, it is underappreciated that ma ...
Estrogen and Autoimmune Disease
Estrogenic hormones possess both immunostimulating and immunosuppressive properties. In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), pregnancy is associated ...
Toll-like Receptors and Lupus N ...
A variety of immune mechanisms, both humoral and cellular, are involved in the onset and amplification of the inflammatory response in lupus nephrit ...
Chemokines and Their Receptors ...
The development of the allergic airway disease conveys several cell types, such as T-cells, eosinophils, mast cells, and dendritic cells, which act ...
Prolactin and Autoimmunity
The relationship between prolactin and the immune system has been demonstrated in the last two decades, opening new windows in the field of the immu ...
Cyclophosphamide and Lupus Neph ...
Ever since the introduction of cyclophosphamide (CY), the management of lupus nephritis has dramatically changed, and its prognosis has greatly impr ...
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis—a ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an interstitial lung disease (ILD) affecting the pulmonary interstitium. Other forms of interstitial lung dis ...
A Meta-analysis of the Associat ...
Abstract The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of exhaled CO (eCO) on the development of asthma and allergic rhinitis (AR) by means ...
The Unexplained Female Predomin ...
Despite recent progress in the understanding of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the striking 9:1 female to male ratio of disease incidence remai ...