Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune Disease
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-02278-5_91
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发表时间:
2019-01-01
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通讯作者:
Snowden, John A.
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作者:
Alexander, Tobias;Sharrack, Basil;Snowden, John A.
Autoimmune diseases (ADs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases affecting 8–10% of the Western population, which constitute a heavy burden to society and are often debilitating and disabling for affected individuals. ADs are defined as an impairment of the immune system resulting in the loss of immune tolerance against self-tissues, by the existence of autoreactive T and B cells and by a complex mechanism of multifactorial aetiology, across genetics and environmental factors (Alexander and Greco 2022). Autoimmunity is also linked to autoinflammation, having common features as the activation against self, with subsequent systemic inflammation (Chap. 93). Current therapeutic strategies for AD are based on systemic immunosuppression (IS) or targeted biologic disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), which ameliorate symptoms and halt progression in the vast majority of patients but usually require continuous administration and