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January 23, 2013 1:50 PM
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Canadian Pediatric Lupus Severity Varies With Ethnicity - Doctors Lounge

Canadian Pediatric Lupus Severity Varies With Ethnicity - Doctors Lounge | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Canadian Pediatric Lupus Severity Varies With Ethnicity Doctors Lounge The researchers found that disease manifestations (malar rash, arthritis, serositis, renal disease), autoantibody profiles, and severity of disease expression differed by...
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January 22, 2013 2:26 PM
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Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody titer predicts time to rheumatoid arthritis onset in patients with undifferentiated arthritis: results from a 2-year prospective study

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody titer predicts time to rheumatoid arthritis onset in patients with undifferentiated arthritis: results from a 2-year prospective study - up-to-the-minute news and headlines.
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January 22, 2013 2:20 PM
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Relationship between autoantibody clustering and clinical subsets in SLE: cluster and association analyses in Hong Kong Chinese

RT @Bipolar_Blogs: Relationship between autoantibody clustering and clinical subsets in SLE: cluster and association analyses in Ho... http://t.co/2qcrs2eg
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January 22, 2013 2:18 PM
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Altered BANK1 expression is not associated with humoral autoimmunity in chronic joint inflammation

Altered BANK1 expression is not associated with humoral autoimmunity in chronic joint inflammation: Conclusion. ... http://t.co/8ieoZGQi
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January 19, 2013 3:11 PM
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Immune regulation and B-cell depletion therapy i... [J Autoimmun. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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January 18, 2013 2:41 PM
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JNI | Abstract | The history of neuromyelitis optica

The discovery of a novel serum autoantibody (termed NMO-IgG or AQP4-Ab) in a subset of patients in 2004 has revived interest in neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
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January 18, 2013 2:35 PM
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Anti-serpin Antibody-mediated Regulation of Proteases in Autoimmune Diabetes

Anti-serpin Antibodies in Type 1 Diabetes [Immunology] http://t.co/gAQBzH5x #JBCTCB
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January 15, 2013 11:02 AM
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Gliknik: recombinant IgG Fc for the treatment of autoimmunity

Gliknik: recombinant IgG Fc for the treatment of autoimmunity | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Business Description Founded in 2007, Gliknik is a biopharmaceuticals company creating new therapies for patients with cancer and immune disorders. Gliknik’s expertise is in the modulation of the i...
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January 14, 2013 2:17 PM
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JCI - Peptide-mediated desmoglein 3 crosslinking prevents pemphigus vulgaris autoantibody-induced skin blistering

JCI - Peptide-mediated desmoglein 3 crosslinking prevents pemphigus vulgaris autoantibody-induced skin blistering http://t.co/G1aEzJcu #jci
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January 12, 2013 1:48 PM
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Celiac disease arthropathy and autoi... [J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI

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January 11, 2013 10:28 AM
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Multiple sclerosis study reveals how killer T cells learn to recognize nerve ... - UW Today

Multiple sclerosis study reveals how killer T cells learn to recognize nerve ... - UW Today | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
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Multiple sclerosis study reveals how killer T cells learn to recognize nerve ...
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A micrograph of a killer T cell, a white blood cell that destroys germs or cancers, but that can sometimes attack the body's own normal cells.
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January 10, 2013 3:07 PM
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Naturally occurring α-synuclein autoantibody levels are lower in patients with Parkinson disease

Naturally occurring α-synuclein autoantibody levels are lower in patients with Parkinson disease | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Using a well-validated assay, authors detected reduced α-Syn-nAbs levels in patients with PD compared to patients with AD and HC. The assay did not achieve criteria for use as a diagnostic tool to reliably distinguish PD from HC.
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January 10, 2013 9:33 AM
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Small peptide ameliorates autoimmune skin blistering disease in mice

Small peptide ameliorates autoimmune skin blistering disease in mice | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Pemphigus vulgaris is a life-threatening autoimmune skin disease that is occurs when the body's immune system generates antibodies that target proteins in the skin known as desomogleins. Desmogleins help to form the ...
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January 22, 2013 2:27 PM
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Top 10 Series: Surgical Procedures in Antiphospholipid Antibody-Positive Patients

Hospital for Special Surgery presents, Top Ten Points Antiphospholipid Antibody-Positive Patients Should Know Before Undergoing a Surgical Procedure (RT @Alliance4Lupus: Top 10 Points Antiphospholipid Anitbody-Positive Patients Should Know Before ...
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January 22, 2013 2:21 PM
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Vitamin D Status and Concomitant Autoimmunity in Celiac Dise... : Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Goals: To determine whether patients with celiac disease (CD) and low vitamin D levels also have a higher prevalence of other autoimmune diseases (AD) as compared with patients with normal vitamin D levels.
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January 22, 2013 2:20 PM
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14th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies & 4th Latin American Congress on Autoimmunity - Revista Electrónica de PortalesMedicos.com

14th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies & 4th Latin American Congress on Autoimmunity - Revista Electrónica de PortalesMedicos.com | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
14th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies & 4th Latin American Congress on Autoimmunity Fecha de Inicio: 18/09/2013 Fecha de Finalización: 21/09/2013 Ciudad: Rio de Janeiro País: Brasil Seleccione la/s especialidad/es a las que...
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January 21, 2013 1:22 PM
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia - Achalasia ...

Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia - Achalasia ... | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Some important findings are suggestive of an autoimmune mechanism: significant infiltration of the myoenteric plexus by monocytes, presence of the class II-Human Histocompatibility Complex DQwl antigen and antibodies to myoenteric ...
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January 18, 2013 2:42 PM
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Elevated serum and synovial fluid TNF-like ligand 1A (TL1A) is associated with autoantibody production in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Informa Healthcare

Elevated serum and synovial fluid TNF-like ligand 1A (TL1A) is associated with autoantibody production in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Informa Healthcare | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
Elevated serum and synovial fluid TNF-like ligand 1A (TL1A) is associated with autoantibody productio... http://t.co/JecVmNVs #antiaging
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January 18, 2013 2:41 PM
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JNI | Abstract | Two new cases of anti-Ca (anti-ARHGAP26/GRAF) autoantibody-associated cerebellar ataxia

Recently, we discovered a novel serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) autoantibody (anti-Ca) to Purkinje cells in a patient with autoimmune cerebellar ataxia (ACA) and identified the RhoGTPase-activating protein 26 (ARHGAP26; alternative designations...
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January 15, 2013 11:03 AM
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Can We All Just Get Along? Immunological Memory Learns Tolerance

Can We All Just Get Along? Immunological Memory Learns Tolerance | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
“This work shows that under normal circumstances, memory T cells ignore self-antigens, thereby prohibiting autoimmunity,” says Leo Lefrançois, Department of Immunology chair, whose laboratory developed a genetically ...
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January 15, 2013 11:01 AM
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Autoimmunity 2014

Autoimmunity 2014 | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
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January 13, 2013 8:52 AM
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Methods For Detecting Insulin Autoantibody

The present invention provides methods for detecting insulin autoantibody. Such methods can be used, for example, to predict susceptibility of and/or diagnose the presence of Type 1 diabetes in a subject.
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January 12, 2013 1:24 PM
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Antisynthetase Syndrome - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment ...

Antisynthetase Syndrome - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment ... | AUTOIMMUNITY | Scoop.it
It is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies (antibodies that destroy normal healthy cells rather than disease-causing agents) that destroy aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. The disease is also known as Jo-1 Syndrome.
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January 10, 2013 3:07 PM
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JCI early table of contents for Jan. 9, 2013 - EurekAlert (press release)

JCI early table of contents for Jan. 9, 2013 EurekAlert (press release) Pemphigus vulgaris is a life-threatening autoimmune skin disease that is occurs when the body's immune system generates antibodies that target proteins in the skin known as...
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January 10, 2013 9:33 AM
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Autoantibodies in chronic idiopathic urticaria and nonurticarial ...

Autoantibodies in chronic idiopathic urticaria and nonurticarial systemic autoimmune disorders. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2013 Jan;110(1):29-33. Authors: Cho CB, Stutes SA, Altrich ML, Ardoin SP, Phillips G, Ogbogu PU ...
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