Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is often observed together with other autoimmune
diseases. The coexistence of two or more autoimmune diseases in the same patient is …

T cells play a critical role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which
is a severe autoimmune disease. In the past 60 years, only one new therapeutic agent with …

Exome sequencing has been commonly used to characterize rare diseases by selecting
multiplex families or singletons with an extreme phenotype (EP) and searching for rare …

Background Headache is the most common neurological symptom and a leading cause of
years lived with disability. We sought to identify the genetic variants associated with a …

Actin and its dynamic structural remodelings are involved in multiple cellular functions,
including maintaining cell shape and integrity, cytokinesis, motility, navigation, and muscle …

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are chronic conditions initiated by the loss of immunologic
tolerance to self-antigens due to the interaction of hereditary (ie, genetics and epigenetics) …

Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem associated with the
development of several chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia …

Background Evidence supports the existence of different subphenotypes in systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) and the pivotal role of cytokines and autoantibodies, which interact in a …

The respiratory system is a complex network of many cell types, including subsets of
macrophages and dendritic cells that work together to maintain steady-state respiration …

Gait disorders in neurologically disabled people can be treated by various techniques
available today which include passive orthoses, functional electrical stimulation (FES) and …