Tag: autoimmune diseases
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Featured article: Treating Fibrosis may not just be a DREAM anymore!
Created using BioRender.com Autoimmune diseases cover a wide range of disorders that involve a dysregulated immune system that wreaks havoc within our bodies. Systemic sclerosis (SSc), one of the rarer autoimmune diseases, starts with excessive collagen production (fibrosis) on the skin but soon spreads to other internal organs like the kidneys, lungs, and heart. The excessive…
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Mutation in innate immune receptor can cause lupus
You stash your drugs in a lupus textbook (Dr. Foreman) It’s never lupus (Dr. House) From House MD But today it is! I assume that Hugh Laurie’s character would have loved the recent work of Brown and colleagues published in Nature. Dr House had diagnosed lupus only once within eight seasons of the series, and…
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The Spoils of Epstein-Barr Virus and Its Role in Multiple Sclerosis
Picture source: iStock, Health Central 2022 is off to a great start for Science as Harvard researchers published a study that potentially solves a longstanding question: Can viral infections cause Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? According to their findings, the answer is yes, we can confidently say that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a long-term suspect for causing this…
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Immunology: Bigger than it seems
A World Immunology Day 2021 special post Immunology is the study of immune cells that are the body’s defense against everything that is foreign and can damage our body. Immune systems have been around for millions of years, protecting all sorts of organisms including plants and bacteria from harm. The field of Immunology has seen…
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