The relationship between infections and autoimmunity as well as the risk of infections due to
antirheumatic agents, including corticosteroids, immunosuppressants and biologics, are …

Adjuvants are compounds incorporated into vaccines to enhance immunogenicity and the
development of these molecules has become an expanding field of research in the last …

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PID) are a genetically heterogenous group of> 150
disorders that affect distinct components of the innate and adaptive immune system and are …

Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most frequent and serious complications in the patients
with systemic lupus erythematosus. Autoimmune-mediated inflammation in both renal …

Most infectious agents, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, can trigger autoimmunity via
different mechanisms. The development of an autoimmune disorder after infection tends to …

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of autoimmunity is thought to be increased among IgA
deficient (IgAD) individuals. However, it is currently unclear if the two conditions coincide …

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are chronic pathologies triggered by the loss of immunological
tolerance to self-antigens, which can cause systemic or organ specific damage. ADs are …

Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness. It is
caused by the loss of orexin producing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus. Current …

Abstract The tight skin-2 (Tsk2/+) mouse has been proposed as an animal model of systemic
sclerosis (SSc) because this animal exhibits increased collagen synthesis and accumulation …

Abstract Background and Objective Autoimmunity is an emerging field of research in the
etiology of different neurological disorders including epilepsy. We aimed to investigate the …