If you experience persistent muscle weakness, fatigue and skin changes that don't seem to fade, it could be more than just ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body.

Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

The oral mucosa represents a fascinating scenario in the setting of medical research for its peculiar immune mileu. Not only the oral cavity hosts specific immune cells interacting with the local ...

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Taiwan: A recent study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology highlights a significant association between ...

New immunotherapies have the potential to mediate a sustained remission from certain autoimmune diseases. This has been referred to as achieving an ‘immune reset’ in patients. Here ...

CAR T-cell therapies have shown unprecedented efficacy in several autoimmune diseases, so far yielding several years of drug-free remission in lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions.

Risk particularly heightened in men, but seen across kidney disease stages. HealthDay News — Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is independently associated with increased depression risk in patients with ...

This Research Topic is still accepting articles. Autoimmune connective tissue diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis, rheumatoid ...

CREST syndrome, or limited systemic sclerosis, is a rare autoimmune disease that causes changes and scarring ... causing your fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) to produce too much collagen (a ...