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Exosomes and Exosomal miRNA in Respiratory Diseases [PDF]

, 2016
Exosomes are nanosized vesicles released from every cell in the body including those in the respiratory tract and lungs. They are found in most body fluids and contain a number of different biomolecules including proteins, lipids, and both mRNA and ...
Adcock, IM, Alipoor, SD, Garssen, J, Mirsaeidi, M, Mortaz, E, Movassaghi, M   +5 more
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Audio-vestibular symptoms in systemic autoimmune diseases [PDF]

, 2018
Immune-mediated inner ear disease can be primary, when the autoimmune response is against the inner ear, or secondary. The latter is characterized by the involvement of the ear in the presence of systemic autoimmune conditions. Sensorineural hearing loss
Adelchi, Croce, D'AGUANNO, VITTORIO, DE VINCENTIIS, Marco, DE VIRGILIO, ARMANDO, DI STADIO, Arianna, GRECO, Antonio, LONGO, Lucia, RALLI, MASSIMO   +7 more
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A Rare Case of Systemic Sarcoidosis in a Middle-Aged Female with a Solitary Thyroid Nodule

Case Reports in Endocrinology, 2021
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. Sarcoidosis can affect any organ of the body, the lung being the most affected. Sarcoidosis rarely affects the thyroid gland, and only a few cases
Ayrton Bangolo, John Bukasa Kakamba, Ali Atoot, Mohammad Jurri, Ashraf Mahmoud, Arthur Oliver Lo, Kunchang Song, Syed Sirajuddin, Adam Atoot   +8 more
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Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. [PDF]

, 2017
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer. However, increasing use of immune-based therapies, including the widely used class of agents known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, has exposed a discrete group of immune-related adverse ...
Abdallah, K., Anderson, J., Andrews, S., Arrindell, D., Ballesteros, J., Bingham, C. O., Boyer, J., Brogdon, C., Chen, D., Chonzi, D., Cotarla, I., Cunha, R., Dadu, R., Davies, M., Dawson, M., Diab, A., Dicker, Adam, Eifler, L., Ernstoff, M. S., Ferguson, A., Ferlini, C., Frankel, S., Go, W., Gochett, C., Goldberg, J., Goncalves, P., Goswami, T., Gregory, N., Gulley, J. L., Hamad, L., Hayreh, V., Helie, N., Holmes, W., Hsu, J. Y., Ibrahim, R., Kaufman, H. L., Kim, S., Lacouture, M. E., Lambotte, O., Larocca, C., LeBoeuf, N. R., Lehman, K., Lenihan, D., Ley-Acosta, S., Luke, J., McClure, J., Michelon, E., Nakamura, M., Onofrei, C., Patel, K., Piperdi, B., Puzanov, I., Rasheed, Z., Reshef, D., Riemer, J., Robert, C., Sarkeshik, M., Saylors, A., Schreiber, J., Shafer-Weaver, K., Shannon, V., Sharfman, W., Sharma, R., Sharon, E., Sherry, R., Silk, A. W., Simonson, C., Skondra, D., Suarez-Almazor, M. E., Thomas, C., Thompson, J. A., Trehu, E., Tresnan, D., Turner, M., Wang, Y., Wariabharaj, D., Waxman, I., Wiley, K., Wood, L., Zhang, L., Zheng, P.   +80 more
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Sarcoidosis

Dermatology Online Journal, 2004
A 48-year-old woman with an 8-year history of intermittently pruritic papules on the lower extremities suddenly developed pruritus and generalized spread of the lesions over a 1-month period. The lesions appeared as smooth, flat-topped, violaceous, round papules on all extremities, trunk, and back. A biopsy specimen showed sarcoidosis.
Kim, Carolyn, MD, Long, William T, MD
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Utility of angiotensin-converting enzyme activity in aqueous humor in the diagnosis of ocular sarcoidosis

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017
Purpose: Many studies include elevated activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in serum in sarcoidosis and in ocular sarcoidosis as well, but there are only a few analyzing ACE activities in aqueous humor.
Violeta Mihailovic-Vucinic, Ljubica Popevic, Spasoje Popevic, Mihailo Stjepanovic, Andjelka Aleksic, Anka Stanojevic-Paovic   +5 more
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Identification of Jak-STAT signaling involvement in sarcoidosis severity via a novel microRNA-regulated peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene signature

Scientific Reports, 2017
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous lung disorder of unknown cause. The majority of individuals with sarcoidosis spontaneously achieve full remission (uncomplicated sarcoidosis), however, ~20% of sarcoidosis-affected individuals experience progressive lung ...
Tong Zhou, Nancy Casanova, Nima Pouladi, Ting Wang, Yves Lussier, Kenneth S. Knox, Joe G. N. Garcia   +6 more
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Immunoscintigraphy for therapy decision making and follow-up of biological therapies [PDF]

, 2016
With the availability of new biological therapies there is the need of more accurate diagnostic tools to noninvasively assess the presence of their targets.
Auletta, S., Carideo, Luciano, Galli, Filippo, Lauri, Chiara, Pacilio, Massimiliano, Signore, Alberto, Valabrega, Stefano   +6 more
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Application of neck ultrasound in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Objective To explore the significance of neck ultrasound (NUS) combined with contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Methods 88 patients with evidence of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy and suspected sarcoidosis with enlarged ...
Mengjun Shen, Ying Zhou, Weiqing Gu, Chengsheng Yin, Yin Wang, Yuan Zhang   +5 more
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Ipilimumab, not just another anti-cancer therapy: hypophysitis as side effect illustrated by four case-reports [PDF]

, 2014
Ipilimumab is a monoclonal antibody that blocks cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen4 (CTLA-4), an inhibitory molecule typically expressed on T cells. Blockade of CTLA-4 induces an overall activation of T cells, including an immune-mediated anti-tumour ...
Brochez, Lieve, Cocquyt, Veronique, KRUSE, VIBEKE, Marlier, Joke, Van Belle, Simon   +4 more
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