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Progranulin autoantibodies in systemic sclerosis and autoimmune connective tissue disorders: A preliminary study

open access: yesImmunity, Inflammation and Disease, 2019
Objective The present study aimed to investigate progranulin autoantibodies in systemic sclerosis and autoimmune connective tissue disorders. Progranulin is a physiologic tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist. Progranulin antibodies decrease progranulin
Philipp Klemm   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease – A case report

open access: yesRespiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is an uncommon interstitial lung disease that is characterized by an interstitial infiltrate of lymphoplasmacytic cells.
Chin-Wei Kuo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking the role of alpha toxin in Clostridium perfringens-associated enteric diseases : a review on bovine necro-haemorrhagic enteritis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bovine necro-haemorrhagic enteritis is an economically important disease caused by Clostridium perfringens type A strains. The disease mainly affects calves under intensive rearing conditions and is characterized by sudden death associated with small ...
Deprez, Piet   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Renal Manifestation of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease

open access: yesJournal of the Scientific Society
A young female presented with facial puffiness and swelling in both lower limbs for 3 months, distension of the abdomen, and breathlessness on exertion for 1 month with a history of hypertension and hypothyroid on regular treatment.
Shalini Ashok   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sjögren's syndrome: An underdiagnosed condition in mixed connective tissue disease

open access: yesClinics, 2014
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of sicca symptoms, dry eye, and secondary Sjögren's syndrome and to evaluate the severity of dry eye in patients with mixed connective tissue disease.
Fany Solange Usuba   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mixed connective tissue disease and idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: A rare but important association

open access: yesUrology Case Reports, 2022
Idiopathic Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a fibro-inflammatory disease. In patients with known mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) it has rarely been described. Our case illustrates a unique presentation of RPF in a patient with MCTD.
Thomas Neerhut   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mixed connective tissue disease — enigma variations? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In 1972, Sharp and colleagues described a new autoimmune rheumatic disease which they called mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), characterized by overlapping features of systemic sclerosis (SSc), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), polymyositis ...
Ciang, NCO, Isenberg, DA, Pereira, N
core  

Spatiotemporal and quantitative analyses of phosphoinositides – fluorescent probe—and mass spectrometry‐based approaches

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic lupus erythematosus and overlap: A clinician perspective

open access: yesClinical Dermatology Review, 2019
Autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases, also termed as autoimmune collagen vascular diseases, as the name suggests are the group of illness arising from a combination of loss of tolerance to self-antigens and shifting of the immune system into self ...
Sanket Shah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disease evolution in mixed connective tissue disease: results from a long-term nationwide prospective cohort study

open access: yesArthritis Research & Therapy, 2017
BackgroundThe phenotypic stability of mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is not clear, and knowledge about disease activity and remission is scarce.
S. Reiseter   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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