Article
Immunology in clinic review series; focus on autoinflammatory diseases: role of inflammasomes in autoinflammatory syndromes.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Mar 2012
Ozkurede V U, Franchi L
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: OTHER THEMES PUBLISHED IN THIS IMMUNOLOGY IN THE CLINIC REVIEW SERIES Allergy, Host Responses, Cancer, Type 1 diabetes and viruses, Metabolic diseases. SUMMARY: Autoinflammatory syndromes are disorders characterized by the hyperactivation of the innate immune system in the absence of microbial infection or autoantibody production. Some autoinflammatory syndromes are associated with recurrent episodes...
Topics
- Carrier Proteins
- Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Hereditary Autoinflammatory Diseases
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Inflammasomes
- Interleukin-1beta
- Models, Immunological