Although intermittent increases in inflammation are critical for survival during physical injury
and infection, recent research has revealed that certain social, environmental and lifestyle …

Viral infections are a leading cause of myocarditis and pericarditis worldwide, conditions that
frequently coexist. Myocarditis and pericarditis were some of the early comorbidities …

There have been significant advances in our understanding of human autoimmunity that
have led to improvements in classification and diagnosis and, most importantly, research …

Autoimmune reactions reflect an imbalance between effector and regulatory immune
responses, typically develop through stages of initiation and propagation, and often show …

Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis) is the most common vector-borne disease in
the United States with an estimated 476,000 cases per year. While historically, the long-term …

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle with a wide range of potential
etiological factors and consequently varying clinical patterns across the world. In this review …

Autoimmune diseases are a leading cause of disability worldwide. Most autoimmune
diseases occur more often in women than men, with rheumatic autoimmune diseases being …

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a major causative agent of community-acquired pneumonia
which can lead to both acute upper and lower respiratory tract inflammation, and …

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are estimated to affect between 5 and 8% of the US population,
and approximately 80% of these patients are women. Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an AD that …

Objective Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a recently discovered group of cells that are
essential to epithelial homeostasis and are implicated in psoriasis pathogenesis, yet they …