Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder of the exocrine glands of
unknown aetiology, which is typically associated with focal lymphocytic infiltrates of glandular …

… ) or in association with other autoimmune diseases (secondary Sjögren's syndrome). In … the
disease should be ‘autoimmune epithelitis’. The extraglandular manifestations of the disease …

… Sjogren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disorder … of the immunopathologic lesion in
Sjogren's syndrome. … of patients with Sjogren's syndrome express proinflammatory cytokines (IL-…

… ‘autoimmune epithelitis’ has been proposed as an alternative for Sjögren's syndrome (SS) …
the epithelial cell in the pathogenesis of the syndrome. Clinically, apart from exocrine glands …

… observations, we suggest that the major suffering cell in SS patients is the epithelium and
thus we propose this descriptive term "autoimmune epithelitis" instead of "Sjögren's syndrome." …

… We speculate that PBC is a classic phenotype of autoimmune epithelitis and this thesis
applies to salivary glands and, of course, SS. There are also major differences between SS and …

… which produce the Sjogren's-like picture … Sjogren's syndrome should reflect both the
pathogenetic process and the major cell which probably initiates it. The term 'autoimmune epithelitis…

… Sjogren's syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disease in which the target of the autoimmune
… early 90s to introduce the term “Autoimmune epithelitis” for the syndrome [28]. Subsequent …

… Autoimmune epithelitis can cause the dysfunction of … disease in SS. Considering the
mechanisms underlying SS-related dry eye disease, this review highlights autoimmune epithelitis of …

… autoimmune diseases, Sjögren’s syndrome and primary biliary cholangitis are exemplary
and can be coined as chronic epithelitis … cholangitis and Sjögren’s syndrome, respectively. …