Autoimmune

Higher Risk of Asthma in children with autoimmune disease

A new study has found that children with some autoimmune diseases have an increased risk of asthma. In the study, Dr. Jukka Kero of Ruprecht-Karls-University at Heidelberg in Germany and colleagues//looked at health records for all children born in Finland in 1987, including more than 60,000 youngsters.The team checked the prevalence of asthma in children with three autoimmune conditions : celiac...

Gold Therapy- A Potential Treatment For Autoimmune Diseases

A new research has highlighted the use of platinum and gold in the treatment of autoimmune disorders. The mechanism of how gold helps in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases // has remained a mystery. It has now been found that platinum or gold can prevent the disease-causing microorganism (bacteria and virus) from taking hold of an important immune system protein....

Asbestos Exposure Associated With An Increased Risk For Autoimmune Disease

Asbestos exposure has long been associated with cancers, fibrosis and other diseases. Based on findings of a recent study researchers say // exposure to asbestos may lay the groundwork for future autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Researchers examined 50 residents from Libby, which is known to be polluted by asbestos. They found these residents were...

New Oral Medication That Could Arrest Autoimmune Diseases In its early Stages

Researchers say they have found a way to prevent type 1 diabetes in rats that are generally prone to develop the disease. In the past researchers discovered the human protein zonulin and found it is produced // in very large amounts in people with autoimmune diseases. This overproduction triggers a number of other reactions that lead to the production of antibodies that can destroy insulin-produc...

Autoimmune disorder caused due to mutation in cryopyrin protein

Professor Gabriel Nunez, Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School has reported in the Journal Nature that the protein Cryopyrin is responsible for producing hypersensitive immune response leading to autoimmune disease. // The protein Cryopyrin is activated by the bacteria against which the protein produces an immune response by activating IL-1 beta, which produces s...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

A set of genetically caused diseases from type 1 diabetes to alopecia, from which the imbalance of killer cells and immune regulating system, autoimmune disease can be understood//. By age 5, out of three problems – an underactive parathyroid, yeast infection of the skin and/or mucous membrane and adrenal gland insufficiency, two will result in a condition called APS1 (Mutation in the A...

Autoimmune disorders studied in detail by U-M researchers.

University of Michigan researchers have been able to zero in (on) the modalities of a drug, capable of rectifying autoimmune disorders and other types of diseases. // Clinical trials on animal models have revealed the capacity of the drug to reduce the potency of a key enzyme, in charge of energy production. 'Many drugs block the function of enzymes, essentially turning them off,' sai...

Understanding Autoimmune Disease

Cambridge: Type 1 diabetes, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are autoimmune diseases, which are a result of the inadequacy of the immune system// to check itself. Researchers are still unsure about the location of the molecular breakdowns, which are responsible for weakening the immune system. Now, a team of scientists from the Whitehead Institute and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ha...

A Single Biological Mechanism Behind Several Autoimmune Disorders

A recent study has found supporting evidence to implicate insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) in the development of Graves’ disease.// In a previous research, Terry J. Smith, M.D. and Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D. had identified the interaction between immunoglobulins and IGF-1R as a cause of inflammation and lymphocyte infiltration in both Graves’ disease and rheumatoid arthr...

Researchers Discover New Molecular Path to Fight Autoimmune Diseases

Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and arthritis are among a variety of autoimmune diseases that are aggravated when one type of white blood cell, called the immune regulatory// cell, malfunctions. In humans, one cause of this malfunction is when a mutation in the FOXP3 gene disables the immune cells’ ability to function. In a new study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Aca...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

A new study has revealed the beneficial aspects of the green tea, saying that it helps to fight against the autoimmune disease. // Scientists have earlier shown that antioxidant properties found in green tea could help prevent atherosclerosis, particularly coronary artery disease. In the new study, researchers led by Stephen Hsu, from the Medical College of Georgia, School...

New Therapeutic Approach for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) made an important finding, which could eventually lead to a new therapeutic approach for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, psoriasis and others. .The studies, conducted in laboratory mice, demonstrated the role of retinoic acid, a substance derived when Vitamin A is...

Cannabis can Help to Treat Allergies, Autoimmune Disorders

Latest research suggests that cannabis, also known as marijuana or ganja, can help in the treatment of allergies and autoimmune disorders that occur when body tissues are attacked by its own immune system. Researchers led by Andreas Zimmer, at the University of Bonn, used tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in the cannabis plant to treat mice and found that it reduced...

Autoimmune Response in Multiple Sclerosis

In multiple sclerosis (MS), the myelin that surrounds the axons of nerve cells is attacked by the bodys own T cells, resulting in slowed and disrupted nerve impulses and, ultimately, axon loss . Myelin basic protein (MBP) is a major component of the myelin sheath and when used as an antigen will induce experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) in mice, which is used as an animal model...