BACKGROUND The common occurrence of xerostomia in Sjögren's syndrome (SS) as well as the easy accessibility of saliva supports the use of sialometry and sialochemistry in the diagnosis of SS. Collection and analysis of whole saliva (oral fluid) is currently the routine technique for sialometry, despite the fact that it is rather inaccurate and impure. OBJECTIVE To assess the value of glandula...

Certain autoimmune disorders, including Sjögren syndrome (SS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), are characterized by autoantibodies against the Ro/SSA and La/SSB cellular antigens. Although the implication of these autoantibodies in disease pathogenesis is still unclear, it is believed that the aberrant responses against autoantigens may extend to other proteins that are not yet well defi...

Objective. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren's syndrome (SS) share clinical and immunogenetic features and may occur together. We undertook this study to determine the risk of primary SS among SLE-unaffected relatives of SLE patients and whether or not primary and secondary SS tended to occur in the same families. Methods. We collected clinical and serological data on 2694 SLE pati...

[3, 4]. However, most of these results had been published before the AEC for SS were established. Two of the largest studies used European Classification Criteria (ECC) for SS. In one of the studies, the prevalence of ATD in SS patients was 20% [5]. Another follow-up study found ATD to be more frequent in the SS patients than in the controls (30% vs 4%) [6]. AEC were used to diagnose SS in the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the oral status, salivary flow rate, Candida carriage in saliva, and prevalence of Candida albicans colonization in several areas of the mouth in patients with primary and secondary Sjögren's syndrome as opposed to those of healthy subjects. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-seven patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), [14 patients with primary SS (SS-1) and 23 patients with secondar...

BACKGROUND Sjögren's syndrome (SS) shares many clinical and pathological similarities with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These autoimmune diseases mostly affect women. In this study, concept profile analysis (CPA) and gene expression meta-analysis were used to identify genes potentially involved in SS pathogenesis. METHODS Human genes associated with SS, SL...

BACKGROUND Ro/SS-A autoantibodies associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Sjögren syndrome may be missed during routine screening for antinuclear autoantibodies (ANA) by immunofluorescence using HEp-2 cells. AIMS To investigate the use of HEp-2 cells transfected with human 60 kDa Ro/SS-A for routine detection of these antibodies. METHODS 10,500 sera were screened at a dilutio...

Design, veri cation, and implementation of reliable distributed programs are a di cult task. In a separate paper, we have presented an algorithm that transforms self-stabilizing (SS) serial model programs to equivalent programs that run on real distributed systems. This paper presents a method to develop new SS distributed programs by using the transformation; that is, we develop and verify SS ...

INTRODUCTION Sweet's syndrome (SS) is an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. It may be paraneoplastic in 10 to 20% of cases. Association with multiple myeloma (MM) is uncommon. CASE REPORT We report on a 73-year-old woman that developed SS 2 months after being diagnosed with IgG MM. Cutaneous lesions improved rapidly after chemotherapy for the MM. No recurrence of SS has taken place during...

The ss-siRNA activity in vivo requires a metabolically stable 5'-phosphate analog. In this report we used crystal structure of the 5'-phosphate binding pocket of Ago-2 bound with guide strand to design and synthesize ss-siRNAs containing various 5'-phosphate analogs. Our results indicate that the electronic and spatial orientation of the 5'-phosphate analog was critical for ss-siRNA activity. C...