Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease

Autoimmunity and autoimmune disease

Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease. Ciba Foundation Symposium 129

enormous effort has been devoted to elucidate the nature of these diseases: what is wrong, what is the cause, why are some afflicted while others are not.... ? As the title indicates, Functional Recovery in Neurological Disease takes a slightly different approach and asks: given a damaged nervous system, how does the rest of the system cope with this deficit, what constitutes functional recover...

Autoimmunity, autoimmune diseases and lymphoproliferative disorders.

Autoimmune thyroid diseases and nonorgan‑specific autoimmunity.

Autoimmune thyroid diseases (ATD), as the most common organ‑specific autoimmune disorder, is frequently accompanied by other organ- and nonorgan‑specific autoimmune diseases. Although the exact pathogenic mechanism of the coexistence of autoimmune disorders has not been clearly defined, genetic and environmental factors, immune defects, and hormonal changes, may play a key role in polyautoimmun...

MicroRNA in autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small conserved non-coding RNA molecules that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression by targeting the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of specific messenger RNAs (mRNAs) for degradation or translational repression. miRNA-mediated gene regulation is critical for normal cellular functions such as the cell cycle, differentiation, and apoptosis, and as much as one-third ...