Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a devastating autoimmune disease with no known cure. Lupus patients suffer from a myriad of clinical symptoms which variably include arthritis, pleuritis, pericar...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by a constellation of varied clinical presentations, although the nearly universal presence of autoantibodies...
An association between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and productive Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been found previously. Productive EBV replication can be associated with a rearrangemen...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a complex disease with a multifactoral etiology, with genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. Molecular mimicry as a result of viral infection m...
Serologic association, cross-reactivity of select EBV-specific antibodies with SLE autoantigens, SLE-like autoimmunity after immunization with EBV peptides, increased EB viral load in SLE patients, an...
It has been shown in a wide variety of contexts that persistent gene expression can best be obtained by using the genomic locus of a transgene. However, the size of most genomic loci precludes their u...