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Fatigue: inflammation and autoimmunity
Severe fatigue, associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or another disorder, has as a core underlying cause chronic inflammation...there are sufficient robust multiple lines of evidence to support the proposition that the severe fatigue and profound disability experienced by people with the neurodegenerative, neuro-immune and autoimmune diseases discussed here is largely driven by peripheral immune activation and systemic inflammation either directly or indirectly by inducing mitochondrial damage.
Epilepsy as an autoimmune disorder
Epilepsy should be evaluated in case management for neuroinflammation that reduces neuronal thresholds of excitability, and more evidence that this can be due to autoimmunity was just published in JAMA Neurology.
Chronic immune stimulation of autoimmunity can trigger leukemia
Chronic immune stimulation of autoimmunity can trigger leukemia
Helicobacter pylori infection and autoimmune diseases
Helicobacter pylori infection and autoimmune diseases
How important is Vitamin D for autoimmune disease?
How important is Vitamin D for autoimmune disease?