SE Marshall - Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2004 - Elsevier Behçet's disease is a systemic vasculitis characterized by recurrent oral and
genital ulcers, and ocular inflammation, and which may involve the joints, skin,
central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. It is most common in ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - All 3 versions
AR Saniabadi, H Hanai, Y Suzuki, T Ohmori, … - Journal of Clinical Apheresis, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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H Nagafuchi, M Takeno, H Yoshikawa, MS … - Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 2005 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Excessive Th1 cell function is importantly involved in the pathogenesis of
Behcet's disease (BD). We previously found that Txk, a member of the Tec family
of tyrosine kinases, acts as a Th1 cell specific transcription factor. To ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - All 4 versions
A Akman, N Sallakci, M Coskun, A Bacanli, U … - Br J Dermatol, 2006 - interscience.wiley.com Background Genetic factors that predispose individuals to Behçet's disease (BD)
are considered to play an important role in development of the disease. The
tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α gene, which is closely linked to the ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
EH Hughes, RW Collins, E Kondeatis, GR … - Tissue antigens, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com Abstract: HLA-B*51 is known to be associated with Behcet's disease (BD) in many
ethnic groups. The pathogenic gene, however, may lie close to the HLA-B locus
and therefore be in linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B*51. On the basis of ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
R Gunesacar, E Erken, B Bozkurt, HT Ozer, S … - International Journal of Immunogenetics, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com In this study we aimed to investigate IVS3 +17T/C single nucleotide polymorphism
(SNP) of CD28 gene, +49A/G and −318C/T SNPs of CTLA-4 gene in patients with
Behçet's disease (BD) and their potential association to the main clinical ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
T Kansu, S Kadayifcilar - Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2006 - Springer Introduction Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic disorder with primarily
ocular, oral, and genital manifestations. Although the most frequent initial
manifestations are orogenital ulcerations, most patients present to the ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
N Kanazawa, F Furukawa - Journal of Dermatology, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com The term autoinflammatory syndromes describes a distinct group of systemic
inflammatory diseases apparently different from infectious, autoimmune, allergic
and immunodeficient ones. Originally, it was almost synonymous with ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
P Fietta - Clinical and experimental rheumatology, 2005 - clinexprheumatol.org ABSTRACT Behçet's disease (BD) is a relapsing, multisystemic inflammatory
disorder, characterized by major symptoms con- sisting of recurrent orogenital
ulcera- tions, eye and skin lesions. Other clini- cal features may include ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions
EJ Nam, SW Han, SU Kim, JH Cho, KH Sa, WK … - Human immunology, 2005 - Elsevier Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is important for angiogenesis and
inflammation, both of which are codependent and contribute to the
pathophysiology of Behcet disease (BD). The increased expressions of VEGF ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 5 versions
