J Davis, H Eyre, FN Jacka, S Dodd, O Dean… - Neuroscience & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia risk has often been conceptualized using a model which requires two hits in order to generate the clinical phenotype—the first as an early priming in a genetically …
The causes of multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have long remained elusive. A new category of pathogenic components, normally dormant within human …
The virome contains the most abundant and fastest mutating genetic elements on Earth. The mammalian virome is constituted of viruses that infect host cells, virus-derived elements in …
NR Jog, JA James - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex systemic autoimmune disease. Infections or infectious reactivation are potential triggers for initiation of autoimmunity and for SLE …
Viruses that cause chronic infection constitute a stable but little-recognized part of our metagenome: our virome. Ongoing immune responses hold these chronic viruses at bay …
BACKGROUND: Patients with bipolar disorder are known to be at high risk of premature death. Comorbid cardio-vascular diseases are a leading cause of excess mortality, well …
AD Hislop, GS Taylor, D Sauce… - Annu. Rev. Immunol …, 2007 - annualreviews.org
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) provides a useful model to study cellular immunity to a genetically stable, persistent human virus. Different sets of proteins expressed during EBV's lytic and …
The predisposition of individuals to several common autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and multiple sclerosis, is genetically …
Superantigens (SAgs) are the most powerful T cell mitogens ever discovered. Concentrations of less than 0· 1 pg/ml of a bacterial superantigen are sufficient to stimulate …