Current concepts in the etiology and treatment of Behçet disease

C Evereklioglu - Survey of ophthalmology, 2005 - Elsevier
Behçet disease is an idiopathic, multisystem, chronic, and recurrent disease characterized
by exacerbations alternating with phases of quiescence, episodic panuveitis, and …

Pulmonary manifestations of Behçet's disease

F Erkan, A Gül, E Tasali - Thorax, 2001 - thorax.bmj.com
Behçet's disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology characterised by
recurrent attacks. Although the triple symptom complex of oral and genital ulcerations with …

Behçet's disease as an autoinflammatory disorder

A Gul - Current Drug Targets-Inflammation & Allergy, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Autoinflammatory diseases are a group of heritable disorders that are characterized by
seemingly unprovoked episodes of inflammation at certain locations and and relative lack of …

Pathogenesis of Behçet's disease: autoinflammatory features and beyond

A Gül - Seminars in immunopathology, 2015 - Springer
Behçet's disease (BD) is an inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology characterised by
recurrent attacks affecting the mucocutaneous tissues, eyes, joints, blood vessels, brain and …

Immunology and functional genomics of Behcet's disease

M Zierhut, N Mizuki, S Ohno, H Inoko, A Gül… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2003 - Springer
Behçet's disease (BD) is a multisystemic inflammatory disorder. Although the cause and
pathogenesis of BD are still unclear, there is evidence for genetic, immunologic and …

Behçet's disease

S Hirohata, H Kikuchi - Arthritis Res Ther, 2003 - Springer
Behçet's disease is characterized by recurrent aphthous stomatitis, uveitis, genital ulcers,
and skin lesions. The role of the HLA-B* 51 gene has been confirmed in recent years …

Flow cytometric analysis of the Vβ repertoire in healthy controls

R van den Beemd, PPC Boor… - … : The Journal of the …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Background Analysis of the T‐cell receptor (TCR)‐Vβ repertoire has been used for studying
selective T‐cell responses in autoimmune disease, alloreactivity in transplantation, and …

Behçet's disease in the Middle East

T Saylan, C Mat, I Fresko, M MelikoĞlu - Clinics in Dermatology, 1999 - cidjournal.com
Behçet's disease (BD), originally described as oral and genital ulcers and uveitis, 1 is a
vasculitis that can involve any organ system. It is a commonly encountered health problem in …

HSP 60 expression in mucocutaneous lesions of Behçet's disease

T Ergun, Ü İnce, E Ekşioğlu-Demiralp… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - Elsevier
Background: Heat shock protein (60 kd HSP) has been implicated in the etiology of Behçet's
disease, but its expression at sites of inflammation is unknown. Objective: Our aim was to …

Involvement of Th1 cells and heat shock protein 60 in the pathogenesis of intestinal Behcet's disease

Y Imamura, MS Kurokawa, H Yoshikawa… - Clinical & …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Involvement of excessive Th1 cell functions and heat shock protein expression in the
pathogenesis of Behçet's disease (BD) has been reported. In this study we have …