During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body. If not, the ...

Studying mice, researchers have discovered that roseolovirus can trigger autoimmunity in a previously unknown way: by disrupting the process by which immune cells learn to avoid targeting their own ...

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InnoCare Pharma (HKEX: 09969; SSE: 688428), today announced that the Journal of Autoimmunity has published results from a clinical study evaluating orelabrutinib, a BTK (Bruton’s tyrosine kinase) ...

Autoimmunity When our bodies are exposed to a virus — or any infection — it recognizes proteins and other molecules on the invading virus as “not us.” Scientists refer to this as an antigen. We then ...

The immune system defends the body against a wide range of internal and external threats. However, this versatility becomes an issue when immune mechanisms target host cells instead—a phenomenon ...

The idea that organisms might attack themselves with immune systems that evolved to defend them from diseases in the outside world made little sense to immunologist Paul Ehrlich. In 1901 the future ...

Somewhere between 24 and 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks our own tissues. As many as four out of five of those people are women.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for certain cancers comes with important side effects such as cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome. Use ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . van Trotsenburg and Mooij are pediatric endocrinologists at Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University ...