Evaluation of the deleted in malignant brain tumor 1 protein expression and DNA methylation profile in rheumatoid arthritis patients by Khushboo Choudhury, Monika Gandhi, Uma Kumar, Sayan Chatterjee, Ram Singh Purty

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Endoplasmic reticulum stress in the salivary glands of patients with primary and associated Sjögren’s disease, and non-Sjögren’s sicca syndrome: a comparative analysis and the infl... by Graziela Vieira Cavalcanti, Fabiola Reis de Oliveira, Rafael Ferraz Bannitz, Natalia Aparecida de Paula, Ana Carolina Fragoso Motta, Eduardo Melani Rocha, John Chiorini, Hilton Marcos Alves Ricz, Denny Marcos Garcia, Maria Cristina Foss-Freitas, Luiz Carlos Conti de Freitas

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Immune Profile Differences between IgG4-Related Diseases and Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome by Qin Y, Shang L, Wang Y, Feng M, Liang Z, Wang N, Gao C, Luo J

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Association of Sicca Syndrome with Proviral Load and Proinflammatory Cytokines in HTLV-1 Infection by Clara Mônica Lima, Silvane Santos, Adriana Dourado, Natália B. Carvalho, Valéria Bittencourt, Marcus Miranda Lessa, Isadora Siqueira, Edgar M. Carvalho

“…However the diagnosis of Sjögren syndrome in these subjects has been contested. …”
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Oral manifestations of autoimmune connective tissue diseases by Akshat Pandey, Mimansha Pandey, Ved Prakash Pandey, Vinod Ravindran

“…Many such diseases like Sjögren syndrome, Rheumatoid arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic Sclerosis, have characteristic oral findings, the identification of which may allow for early diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Clinical and Pathological Roles of Ro/SSA Autoantibody System by Ryusuke Yoshimi, Atsuhisa Ueda, Keiko Ozato, Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo

“…Anti-Ro/SSA antibodies are among the most frequently detected autoantibodies against extractable nuclear antigens and have been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Although the presence of these autoantibodies is one of the criteria for the diagnosis and classification of SS, they are also sometimes seen in other systemic autoimmune diseases. …”
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Autoimmune Diseases and Their Manifestations on Oral Cavity: Diagnosis and Clinical Management by Matteo Saccucci, Gabriele Di Carlo, Maurizio Bossù, Francesca Giovarruscio, Alessandro Salucci, Antonella Polimeni

“…This review is aimed at describing oral presentations, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, pemphigus vulgaris, mucous membrane pemphigoid, and Behcet disease.…”
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Relapsing Ipsilateral Vestibular Neuritis by Duilio Emiliano De Schutter, Nicolás Pérez Fernández

“…The patient’s background included prehypertension, vitiligo, left ventricular hypertrophy, and Sjögren's syndrome. He denied any previous episode of vertigo or migraine manifestations. …”
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Pancreatic Cancer and Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Case Report by Daniela Oliveira, Vanessa Chaves, José Carlos Martins, Carlos Vaz, Miguel Bernardes, Jorge Almeida

“…Primary Sjögren syndrome (SS) is a chronic inflammatory systemic autoimmune disease with a high risk of malignancy development, namely, lymphoproliferative neoplasms. …”
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Attenuation of Autoimmune Phenomena in a Patient with Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 1 by Jill D. Jacobson, Julia R. Broussard, Courtney Marsh, Brandon Newell

“…Serologic testing performed at age 11 revealed seropositivity for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibodies, antinuclear antibodies, and Sjögren syndrome A (SSA) antibodies. At age 12, she was given 2 doses of rituximab. …”
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Serum Interleukin-6 Expression Level and Its Clinical Significance in Patients with Dermatomyositis by Min Yang, Xiaomin Cen, Qibing Xie, Chuan Zuo, Guixiu Shi, Geng Yin

“…Blood samples from 23 adult patients with dermatomyositis (DM), 22 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 22 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 16 with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), and 20 healthy controls were collected. …”
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Elevated Adiponectin Serum Levels in Women with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases by Éric Toussirot, Béatrice Gaugler, Malika Bouhaddi, Nhu Uyen Nguyen, Philippe Saas, Gilles Dumoulin

“…In this study, we assessed the serum levels of leptin, adiponectin, and ghrelin, in association with the measurements of body composition, in 15 female patients with various autoimmune diseases (systemic lupus erythematosus, primary Sjögren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, mixed connective tissue disease, vasculitis, CREST syndrome, and polymyositis) and in 15 healthy female controls. …”
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Multiple Transverse Colonic Perforations Associated with Slow-Release Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Corticosteroids: A Case Report by Nobuki Shioya, Shigehiro Shibata, Masahiro Kojika, Shigeatsu Endo

“…The patient was a 36-year-old woman with sarcoidosis and Sjogren's syndrome, and had been prescribed slow-release diclofenac sodium and prednisolone for the treatment of pain associated with uveitis and erythema nodosum. …”
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Enteropathic Spondyloarthritis: From Diagnosis to Treatment by Rosario Peluso, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Salvatore Iervolino, Francesco Manguso, Giuseppina Tramontano, Pasquale Ambrosino, Carmela Esposito, Antonella Scalera, Fabiana Castiglione, Raffaele Scarpa

“…Rheumatic manifestations are the most frequent extraintestinal findings of IBD with a prevalence between 17% and 39%, and IBD is associated, less frequently, with other rheumatic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren syndrome, Takayasu arteritis, and fibromyalgia. …”
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A rare case of postoperative hemorrhage following laparoscopic cholecystectomy - A case report by Mei-Ling Chen, Ruo-Tong Cai, Haitham Salameen, Xiu-Lin Wang, Peng Chen, Xiong Ding, Yun-Bing Wang

“…Here, we present a rare case of a patient diagnosed with an overlapping syndrome comprising primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), along with Sjögren's syndrome (SS). This patient experienced recurrent massive hemorrhage following cholecystectomy and was ultimately diagnosed with acquired hemophilia A (AHA). …”
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Parkinsonism and Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Fortuitous Association or a Shared Immunopathogenesis? by Mariem Kchaou, Nadia Ben Ali, Intissar Hmida, Saloua Fray, Hela Jamoussi, Mohamed Jalleli, Slim Echebbi, Afef Achouri, Samir Belal

“…Background. The Sjögren Syndrome (SS) can include various manifestations of central nervous system impairment. …”
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Integrated analyses uncover new features of atypical memory B cells and novel targets for intervention by Fuli Fan, Shubei Liu, Bin Wang, Xiaojian Song, Wei Wang

“…Alternation of AMB in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) was evaluated via bioinformatic approaches. …”
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Systemic disease activity measured with ESSDAI varies largely over 5 years in a prospective, longitudinal cohort of patients with Sjögren’s disease by Suzanne Arends, Arjan Vissink, Hendrika Bootsma, Liseth de Wolff, Gwenny Verstappen, Alja Stel, Greetje van Zuiden, Jolien van Nimwegen, Frans Kroese

“…Objectives The objectives are to evaluate variation in systemic disease activity (European Alliance of Associations For Rheumatology (EULAR) Sjögren’s Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI)) over time at group and individual patient level and to assess associations of ESSDAI low disease activity (LDA) with other outcome measures in a standard-of-care cohort of patients with Sjögren’s disease (SjD).Methods Patients with SjD participating in a prospective longitudinal study (REgistry of Sjögren Syndrome LongiTudinal cohort) fulfilling the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR classification criteria with ≥2 years of follow-up were included. …”
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Comparative Analysis of CXCR5 Circulating DNA Methylation Levels in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases by Yiming Shi, Yingying Qin, Yunshen Li, Ping Jiang, Kai Wei, Jianan Zhao, Yu Shan, Yixin Zheng, Fuyu Zhao, Mi Zhou, Li Li, Yu Shen, Xinliang Lv, Yuejuan Zheng, Shicheng Guo, Qin Ding, Cen Chang, Dongyi He

“…Methods Targeted methylation sequencing was performed using peripheral blood from 164 rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 30 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 30 ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 30 psoriatic arthritis (PsA), 24 Sjögren's syndrome (SS) patients, and 30 healthy controls (HC). …”
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