Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (FcγRs) link humoral and cellular immunity by binding antigen–IgG immune complexes and internalizing the complexes for efficient antigen presentation. FcγRs comprise ...

Asha Torczon explores why the female population are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases and the impact of misogyny in ...

Autoimmunity is an underlying cause of many diseases, including type I diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Crohn’s disease. The processes that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The common consensus for some time has been that the prevalence of autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases has been ...

In 1901, Paul Ehrlich conducted one of the landmark experiments in immunology. While studying the immune response in goats using blood from other animals, ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for certain cancers comes with important side effects such as cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome. Use ...

Scientists have revealed a novel mechanism through which the immune system controls autoimmunity and cancer. In the special focus of the researchers were regulatory T cells -- a type of white blood ...

Autoimmune conditions are multifactorial in their cause, with a mixture of genetic and environmental factors often playing a role. As multifactorial conditions are partly caused by genetic factors, ...

The Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center (CAMBAC) is hosting a one-day regional symposium titled Advances in Musculoskeletal Infection Research: From Bench to ...

Several pathological mechanisms have been proposed to explain the development of autoimmune conditions. Aside from the roles played by genetic and environmental factors, some of the main pathological ...