Vitamin D, besides having well‐known control functions of calcium and phosphorus
metabolism, bone formation and mineralization, also has a role in the maintenance of immune‐…

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded, endogenous non-coding small RNAs, ranging
from 18 to 25 nucleotides in length. Growing evidence suggests that miRNAs are essential in …

… The polymorphisms (rs11465955, rs1624395, rs1152888, and rs1370128) of IRAK-M in …
The SNP rs1152888 of IRAK-M was not associated with SLE in these populations, while the …

Objectives To assess the prevalence of the main causes of morbi-mortality in the antiphospholipid
syndrome (APS) during a 10-year-follow-up period and to compare the frequency of …

Objectives: To identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with antiphospholipid
syndrome (APS) during a 5-year period and to determine clinical and immunological …

Background & Aims Tofacitinib, an orally administered Janus kinase inhibitor, blocks signaling
through γ-chain–containing cytokines (interleukins 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, and 21). We performed a …

To define the clinical and immunologic pattern of expression of Sjögren syndrome (SS)
associated with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we conducted a multicenter study …

Objective: There are few large cohort studies available on the association of systemic and
thyroid autoimmune diseases. In this study, we wished to determine the association of …

… Margit Zeher4, … , Faculty of Science and Letters, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul,
Turkey); M Zeher, Ildike-Fanny Horvath (Division of Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, …

Objective. To evaluate the influence of the main immunological markers on the disease
phenotype at diagnosis in a large international cohort of patients with primary Sjogren's …