Neutrophils restricted contribution of CCRL2 genetic variants to COVID-19 severity by Mattia Laffranchi, Elvezia Maria Paraboschi, Francisco Bianchetto-Aguilera, Nicola Tamassia, Sara Gasperini, Elisa Gardiman, Arianna Piserà, Annalisa Del Prete, Pietro Invernizzi, Angela Gismondi, Alberto Mantovani, Marco A. Cassatella, Rosanna Asselta, Silvano Sozzani

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Transition Guide Dissemination to Foster Patient–Care Team Conversations: A Childhood Arthritis Rheumatology Research Alliance Transition Learning Collaborative Pilot Implementatio... by Joyce C. Chang, Gabrielle Alonzi, Cora Sears, Nicole Bitencourt, Alex Hernandez, Rosemary Peterson, Risa Alperin, Rebecca S. Overbury, Mariel dela Paz, Lindsay N. Waqar‐Cowles, Patience H. White, Kristine Carandang, Erica F. Lawson, for the CARRA Transition Workgroup

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Lymphadenopathies: A Retrospective Study of Epidemiology, Characteristics, Diagnosis and Treatment Outcomes of Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Mogadishu-Somalia by Kıratlı K, Bulut M, Ali MA, Aysin M, Ali AM, Mohamed Hirsi I, Bashir AM

“…Ilhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Department of Radiology, Istanbul, Turkey; 3Balikesir University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Balikesir, Turkey; 4Mogadishu Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Mogadishu, Somalia; 5Mogadishu Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Mogadishu, SomaliaCorrespondence: Kazım Kıratlı, Mogadishu Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Mogadishu, Somalia, Email drkazimkiratli@gmail.comIntroduction: Lymphadenopathies, which can be caused by infections, malignant diseases, autoimmune disorders, and many other diseases, pose a challenge to clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as all over the world. …”
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A case of hypophysitis after COVID-19 vaccination with a detection of anti-pituitary antibody, with review of literature by Chika Kyo, Tomoko Kobayashi, Shintaro Iwama, Rieko Kosugi, Fumikazu Sawabe, Ryo Hayafusa, Yuki Sakai, Tatsuo Ogawa, Masato Kotani, Tatsuhide Inoue, Hiroshi Arima, Hiroyuki Ariyasu

“…Two of those eight patients had autoimmune diseases. Our case suggests a potential link between acquired immunity, APA production, and pituitary damage. …”
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Protection of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis by Kanglan Li, Shouchao Wei, Li Hu, Xiaojian Yin, Yingren Mai, Chunmei Jiang, Xiaoping Peng, Xingxing Cao, Zhongkai Huang, Haihong Zhou, Guoda Ma, Zhou Liu, Huiliang Li, Bin Zhao

“…To evaluate the viability of FMT for MS treatment and its impact on MS pathology, we tested FMT in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a mouse model of MS. …”
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Early Treatment with Empagliflozin and GABA Improves β-Cell Mass and Glucose Tolerance in Streptozotocin-Treated Mice by Caroline Daems, Sophie Welsch, Hasnae Boughaleb, Juliette Vanderroost, Annie Robert, Etienne Sokal, Philippe A. Lysy

“…While the autoimmune character of T1D (type 1 diabetes) is being challenged, it is currently recognized that inflammation plays a key role in its development. …”
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Geographical Differences in the Safety and Efficacy of Tofacitinib Versus TNFi: A Post Hoc Analysis of ORAL Surveillance by Bogdan Batko, Slawomir Jeka, Piotr Wiland, Agnieszka Zielińska, Maria Stopińska-Polaszewska, Marcin Stajszczyk, Magdalena Kosydar-Piechna, Mary Jane Cadatal, Jose L. Rivas

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Leveraging Administrative Health Databases to Address Health Challenges in Farming Populations: Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis (1975-2024) by Pascal Petit, Nicolas Vuillerme

“…Major gaps also persist in understanding various health conditions, including cardiovascular, reproductive, ocular, sleep-related, age-related, and autoimmune diseases. Addressing these overlooked areas is essential for comprehending the health risks faced by farming communities and guiding public health policies. …”
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Serum Level Alteration of IL-6, IL-1β, and IFN-γ in Groups of Healthy Adults with Oxidative DNA Damage in Najaf Governorate by Dhuha S. Saleh, Hayder S. Hussain, Hasan N. Al-Haidari, Samia K. Abbas, Ayaid K. Zgair, Seenaa M. Ali

“…Najaf governorate was recorded as one of the most polluted Iraqi governorates with increased cancer, autoimmune, and abortion cases. Study Groups. A total of 88 adult volunteers from three test groups were divided based on their inhabitance in different geographical regions in Najaf governorate. …”
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Total Adiponectin Is Inversely Associated with Platelet Activation and CHA2DS2-VASc Score in Anticoagulated Patients with Atrial Fibrillation by Roberto Carnevale, Daniele Pastori, Mariangela Peruzzi, Elena De Falco, Isotta Chimenti, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Ernesto Greco, Antonino G. M. Marullo, Cristina Nocella, Francesco Violi, Pasquale Pignatelli, Camilla Calvieri, Giacomo Frati

“…Exclusion criteria were as follows: prosthetic heart valves, cardiac revascularization in the previous year, severe cognitive impairment, chronic infectious or autoimmune diseases, and active cancer. Results. Mean age was 72.9 (±8.7) years and 41.6% were female. …”
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Vision Improvement after Osimertinib Treatment in Paraneoplastic Optic Neuropathy Associated with Lung Adenocarcinoma by Masaomi Kubota, Nobumasa Tamura, Takaaki Hayashi, Euido Nishijima, Haruhiko Yanagisawa, Akira Kojima, Tadashi Nakano

“…Treatments for paraneoplastic optic neuropathy (PON), a tumor-related autoimmune disease, include immunosuppression, plasma exchange, and immunoglobulin therapies, as well as treatment of the underlying disease. …”
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Increased Frequency of Circulating Follicular Helper T Cells in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Jie Ma, Chenlu Zhu, Bin Ma, Jie Tian, Samuel Essien Baidoo, Chaoming Mao, Wei Wu, Jianguo Chen, Jia Tong, Min Yang, Zhijun Jiao, Huaxi Xu, Liwei Lu, Shengjun Wang

“…Follicular helper T (Tfh) cells are recognized as a distinct CD4+ helper T-cell subset, which provides for B-cell activation and production of specific antibody responses, and play a critical role in the development of autoimmune disease. So far, only one study investigated the circulating Tfh cells increased in a subset of SLE patients. …”
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Immunology and Oxidative Stress in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical and Basic Approach by Genaro G. Ortiz, Fermín P. Pacheco-Moisés, Oscar K. Bitzer-Quintero, Ana C. Ramírez-Anguiano, Luis J. Flores-Alvarado, Viridiana Ramírez-Ramírez, Miguel A. Macias-Islas, Erandis D. Torres-Sánchez

“…Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits many of the hallmarks of an inflammatory autoimmune disorder including breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the recruitment of lymphocytes, microglia, and macrophages to lesion sites, the presence of multiple lesions, generally being more pronounced in the brain stem and spinal cord, the predominantly perivascular location of lesions, the temporal maturation of lesions from inflammation through demyelination, to gliosis and partial remyelination, and the presence of immunoglobulin in the central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid. …”
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Thyroid function during COVID-19 and post-COVID complications in adults: a systematic review by Anisha Panesar, Palma Gharanei, Natasha Khovanova, Lawrence Young, Dimitris Grammatopoulos, Dimitris Grammatopoulos

“…Viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2, can trigger or worsen autoimmune thyroid diseases, such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves’ disease. …”
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Safety and efficacy of switching from adalimumab to sarilumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ongoing MONARCH open-label extension by Gerd R Burmester, Mark C Genovese, Vibeke Strand, Gregory St John, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Howard Amital, Tatiana Raskina, Antonio Gómez-Centeno, Claudia Pena-Rossi, Leon Gervitz, Karthinathan Thangavelu, Susan Boklage

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A High-Salt Diet Disturbs the Development and Function of Natural Killer Cells in Mice by Xiaokang Zeng, Yan Li, Weibiao Lv, Xinhuai Dong, Chong Zeng, Liming Zeng, Zibo Wei, Xu Lin, Yanning Ma, Qiang Xiao

“…A high-salt diet (HSD) is common worldwide and can lead to cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammation, and autoimmune diseases. Moreover, increasing evidence shows that HSD is closely related to a variety of immune diseases. …”
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis with 472,819 individuals identifies 32 novel risk loci for psoriasis by Min Zhang, Wenting Su, Jiahui Deng, Bin Zhai, Gaizhi Zhu, Ran Gao, Qi Zeng, Jinming Qiu, Ziqing Bian, He Xiao, Guoming Luan, Renxi Wang

“…Gene-set analyses and the genetic correlation revealed that psoriasis-related genes have the positive correlations with autoimmune diseases such as ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel diseases, and Crohn’s disease. …”
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Gluten-Free Diet Adherence Evaluation in Adults with Long-Standing Celiac Disease by Marek K. Kowalski, Danuta Domżał-Magrowska, Piotr Szcześniak, Magdalena Bulska, Daria Orszulak-Michalak, Ewa Małecka-Wojciesko

“…Background: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease that results from the interaction of genetic, immune, and environmental factors. …”
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The Platelet-Specific Gene Signature in the Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease Transcriptome by Ali Kemal Oguz, Cagdas Sahap Oygur, Bala Gur Dedeoglu, Irem Dogan Turacli, Sibel Serin Kilicoglu, Ihsan Ergun

“…Findings indicating excessive platelet activation have been reported in systemic sclerosis, which is another autoimmune, multisystemic fibrotic disorder. The immune-mediated, inflammatory, and fibrosing intersections of IgG4-RD and systemic sclerosis raised a question about platelets’ role in IgG4-RD. …”
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Bifidobacterium animalis BD400 protects from collagen-induced arthritis through histidine metabolism by Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Qing Hong, Qing Hong, Xuehong Zhang, Zhenmin Liu, Zhenmin Liu

“…BackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic and systemic autoimmune disease. Numerous clinical studies have indicated a correlation between alterations in gut microbiota and the onset and progression of RA. …”
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