The presence of autoantibodies in apparently healthy individuals has been increasingly recognized. Although some of these individuals are in preclinical stages of a disease such as systemic lupus ...

Breach of tolerance to self-antigens and serological autoimmunity, reportedly occurs long before onset of clinical autoimmune disease (1). Still, circulating disease-specific autoantibodies remain a ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the prototypical autoimmune disease, being characterized by circulating autoantibodies, widespread inflammation and tissue destruction. Given the potential ...

Unless you are an identical twin, you probably aren’t often mistaken for someone else. Likewise, our own sense of self as distinct from all other humans is deeply ingrained since early childhood. The ...

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Nerve-Muscle Unit, Service of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland A great proportion of neuromuscular ...

While autoantibodies have been implicated as central players in a range of serious autoimmune diseases, researchers from Arizona State University published a study “Serum autoantibodyome reveals that ...

Autoantibodies, which are also referred to as natural antibodies, are antibodies that react with self-antigens. Under normal conditions, the human immune system is capable of discriminating between ...

Rebecca Aicheler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Panel A shows the profile of autoantibodies binding to factor B, C3b, and C3 activation fragments in Patients 1 and 2. I bars denote the standard deviation of three independent tests. As shown in ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Immunology discovered autoantibodies against chemokines following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The spectrum of ...

Our increasing knowledge of the complex nature of molecular interactions has enabled us to not only understand physiological and pathological processes better but also to identify biological markers ...