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Reduction In Antibody Gene Rearrangement In B Cells Related To Type 1 Diabetes, Lupus
December 23, 2008 — Scientists have discovered that a B-cell editing process may go awry in people with certain types of autoimmune ... > full story -
Potential Autoimmunity-Inducing Cells Found In Healthy Adults
December 22, 2008 — It's not just patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis that have self-attacking immune cells; healthy people have them too, according to a new report in the Journal of ... > full story -
Hope For The Treatment Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
December 5, 2008 — Systemic lupus erythematosus is an chronic, autoimmune, inflammatory disease that progressively damages numerous organs in the body. Treatments are available, but none is specific to the disease, and ... > full story -
How Women With Lupus Can Increase Chance For Healthy Pregnancies
October 26, 2008 — In the not so distant past, women with systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, were advised not to have children, and if they became pregnant, to have therapeutic abortions to prevent ... > full story -
Accumulated Bits Of A Cell's Own DNA Can Trigger Autoimmune Disease
August 21, 2008 — A security system wired within every cell to detect the presence of rogue viral DNA can sometimes go awry, triggering an autoimmune response to single-stranded bits of the cell's own ... > full story -
B Cells Can Act Alone In Autoimmune Disease
August 7, 2008 — B cells, the source of damaging autoantibodies, have long been thought to depend upon T cells for their activation and were not considered important in the initiation of autoimmune diseases like ... > full story -
Cutting The Brakes On The Immune System; Newly Discovered Gene Variant Implicated In Lupus
August 1, 2008 — A new study has found that variation of a particular gene -- known as TNFAIP3 -- may cause the immune system to lose its ability to shut off, leading to the autoimmune disease lupus. The research ... > full story -
'Multi-Target' Immune Therapy Improves Outcomes Of Severe Lupus Nephritis
July 2, 2008 — A new treatment using a combination of drugs targeting different parts of the immune system improves the recovery rate for patients with severe lupus involving the kidneys, according to a new ... > full story -
Specific Location Of The TRAF1/C5 Gene Associated With Multiple Autoimmune Diseases
June 13, 2008 — The TRAF1/C5 locus on chromosome 9 has been revealed to play a role in multiple autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and systemic lupus erythematosus, according to new ... > full story -
Ovarian Function And Fertility Preserved In Women With Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
June 12, 2008 — Ovarian function can be preserved and disease activity controlled in women with severe systemic lupus erythematosus when treated with a 6-month course of cyclophosphamide, a chemotherapy drug, ... > full story
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