Lupus

Researchers Find New Pathway for Kidney Disease in SLE

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 16th, 1998

Studies on mice with a disease similar to systemic lupus erythematosus, a devastating autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation and severe kidney disease, point to a novel therapeutic approach to treating this disease in humans, reported scientists from The Rockefeller University in the February 13, 1998, issue of the journal Science.

Their findings force a rethinking of the current scientific literature on this disease, they said.

Systemic lupus erythematosus affects mostly women between the ages of 20 and 40. The disease develops when the immune system, which normally attacks foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, attacks the...

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