Abstract In 2011 Shoenfeld and Agmon-Levin proposed a new syndrome as a way of
grouping together a range of emerging autoimmune diseases with possible adjuvant …

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The immune system must be able to discriminate between self and non-self. However,
mechanisms of doing so sometimes fail, causing the activation and clonal expansion of …

Infections are known to trigger flares of autoimmune diseases in humans and serve as an
inciting cause of autoimmunity in animals. Evidence suggests a causative role of infections …

The role of an autoimmunologist is to investigate and cultivate knowledge of normal and
abnormal immune responses against self, which includes developing practical know-how to …

The year of preparation of The Autoimmune Diseases 11 (1991) is the 40th anniversary of
the first cited adjectival description of “autoimmune,” in reference to hemolytic anemia …

To explain the pathogenesis of autoimmunity, we hypothesize that following an infection the
immune response spreads to tissue-specific autoantigens in genetically predisposed …

Numerous environmental factors have been implicated in both organ specific and non-organ
specific autoimmune disease. In this review, we consider the evidence for viral involvement …

Using three reference disease models‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) as a
prototype of T‐cell mediated organ‐specific autoimmune disease, myasthenia gravis (MG) …