Autoimmune diseases are a diverse group of conditions characterized by aberrant B cell and T reactivity to normal constituents the host. These occur widely affect individuals all ages, especially women. Among these diseases, most prominent immunological manifestation is production autoantibodies, which provide valuable biomarkers for diagnosis, classification disease activity. Although cells ha...

Resumen: La enfermedad autoinmune del oído interno es una entidad clínica rara, con tasas de incidencia entre, cinco y veinte casos por cada cien mil habitantes/año que se caracteriza la pérdida audición bilateral manifestaciones vestibulares patología autoinmune. Además, el difícil diagnóstico los criterios laboratorio no establecidos, contribuyen al infra condición. El tratamiento t...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the epidemiologic evidence that vitamin D may be related to human autoimmune disease risk. METHODS PubMed, limited to English from inception through April 2010, was searched using keywords: "vitamin D," "autoimmune," and autoimmune disease names. We summarized in vitro, animal, and genetic association studies of vitamin D in autoimmune disease pathogenesis. We sorted e...

OBJECTIVE Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder in which the risk of autoimmune liver disease is high. Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic and progressive entity and the risk of its being associated with other autoimmune disorders such as celiac disease is high also. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of celiac disease in patients with autoimmune hepatitis and vice versa. ...

Reports in humans and rodents indicate that immune development may be altered following perinatal exposure to immunotoxic compounds, including chemotherapeutics, corticosteroids, polycyclic hydrocarbons, and polyhalogenated hydrocarbons. Effects from such exposure may be more dramatic or persistent than following exposure during adult life. For example, prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlo...