RI Fox - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disorder of the exocrine glands with
associated lymphocytic infiltrates of the affected glands. Dryness of the mouth
and eyes results from involvement of the salivary and lacrimal glands. The ... Cited by 830 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
RS Fraser, JA Pare, RG Fraser, PD Pare, AJ …, 1994 - nursinglibrary.org This book focuses on the diseases and disorders clinicians see in everyday practice.
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- ►nih.gov [PDF] WB Bias, JD Reveille, TH Beaty, DA Meyers, … - American journal of human genetics, 1986 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov SUMMARY Family studies of autoimmune diseases are consistent with multifacto-
rial etiology. However, familial occurrence of the autoimmune trait as defined
by the presence of autoimmune disease and/or high titer auto- antibody ... Cited by 108 - Related articles - All 7 versions
RW Wilson, TT Provost, B Wilma, EL … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com The relationships of HLA - DR and the newer DS (second D locus) B cell
alloantigens (MB and MT) to the clinical and serologic expression of primary and
secondary forms of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) were examined in 102 patients ... Cited by 89 - Related articles - All 3 versions
R Jonsson, K Moen, D Vestrheim, P Szodoray - Oral Dis, 2002 - interscience.wiley.com Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune and rheumatic disorder with
prominent sicca complaints from the mucous membranes because of lack of proper
exocrine secretions. There is no straightforward and simple diagnostic test ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
FC Arnett, RG Hamilton, JD Reveille, WB Bias, … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, autoantibodies to Ro (SS-A) were
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AI Bolstad, R Jonsson - Arthritis Res, 2002 - biomedcentral.com There is no single disease-specific diagnostic criterion for Sjögren's
syndrome. For diagnosis, the most functional criteria are the recently modified
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GS Cooper, FW Miller, JP Pandey - Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Studies in both humans and in animal models of specific disorders suggest that
polymorphisms of multiple genes are involved in conferring either a
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AI Bolstad, A Wargelius, B Nakken, HJ Haga, … - The Journal of rheumatology, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov OBJECTIVE: To screen for polymorphisms in the apoptosis regulating Fas and Fas
ligand (FasL) genes in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS), and to
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O Heinzlef, S Alamowitch, V Sazdovitch, P … - Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with autoimmune disorders (AIDs) in
individual patients, and limited data suggest a possible familial association of
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