Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpesvirus hiding in a latent form in memory B cells in
the majority of the world population. Although, primary EBV infection is asymptomatic or …

Humans exhibit considerable variability in their immune responses to the same immune
challenges. Such variation is widespread and affects individual and population‐level …

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic,
destructive, debilitating arthritis. Its etiology is unknown; it is presumed that environmental …

Serologic association, cross-reactivity of select EBV-specific antibodies with SLE
autoantigens, SLE-like autoimmunity after immunization with EBV peptides, increased EB …

Background The saliva metabolome has been applied to explore disease biomarkers. In this
study we characterized the metabolic profile of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) patients …

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease of exocrine tissue that primarily affects
women. Although patients typically experience xerostomia and xerophthalmia, numerous …

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a common chronic systemic autoimmune disease and its main
characteristic is lymphoid infiltration of the exocrine glands, particularly the salivary and …

Highlights•GWAS suggest pathological inflammation is controlled by a small network of
genes.•Many chronic inflammatory/autoimmune risk alleles occur in regions of positive …

This review will briefly outline the recent advances that show serologic, DNA, gene
expression, viral load, T cell responses, humoral fine specificity, and molecular mimicry …

Xerostomia is a common symptom in the elderly population. Studies have suggested that the
underlying cause of approximately 40% of xerostomia in the elderly is Sjögren's syndrome …