Chronic fatigue is a common, poorly understood and disabling phenomenon in many
diseases. We aim to provide an overview of fatigue in chronic autoimmune and inflammatory …

Primary Sjögren syndrome is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects exocrine glands such
as the salivary and lacrimal glands. In addition, systemic involvement is common. Primary …

Neurological and psychiatric disorders are common in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE). While several pathogenetic mechanisms are thought to be involved, among of …

Sjögren's syndrome is a common autoimmune disease (affecting ∼0.7% of European
Americans) that typically presents as keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia. Here we report …

To determine whether neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) are influenced by antibodies against the human N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate (…

Objective: Sensory neuropathies often involve small-diameter myelinated and unmyelinated
nerve fibers, and neurologic and electrophysiologic findings may be normal unless larger …

BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress has been associated with many diseases and can among
others be assessed as increased levels of advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP). …

Objectives Fatigue is a major cause of disability in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).
Fatigue has similarities with sickness behaviour in animals; the latter mediated by pro-…

Epidemiological studies indicate a relation between vitamin D status and autoimmune
diseases, and in vitro studies demonstrate an effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D on immune …

Objective More than 80% of autoimmune disease predominantly affects females, but the
mechanism for this female bias is poorly understood. We suspected that an X chromosome …