| Current and future challenges in primary Sjögren's syndrome. | |
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PMID: 22208656 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder of exocrine glands. SS particularly affects the lacrimal and salivary glands. Dry mouth and dry eyes are frequently proffered as presenting symptoms, but non-specific symptoms such as malaise and fatigue, and extraglandular manifestations like purpura, polyneuropathy and arthritis are also often present. Moreover, lymphomas develop in about 7.5% of SS patients, mostly marginal zone B-cell lymhomas. Futhermore, SS has a very substantial impact on the patients' quality of life and their daily activities. Recently, many breakthroughs have been seen in salivary diagnostics, which not only can be used for diagnosis but also for monitoring of disease activity and disease progression as well as for objectively scoring the effect of intervention treatment with biologicals. In addition, salivary proteomics, genomics and system biology have been shown to be very promising tools in unravelling the pathophysiology of SS, thus providing in depth insight in its underlying mechanisms which could give clues for intervention therapies with biologicals. The latter is of particular interest as B cell depletion therapy has been shown a very promising therapy for a subgroup of SS patients. When applying salivary diagnostics in combination with instruments to rate disease activity and progression in SS, one might be able to select those SS patients who respond to a particular type of biological. These topics are addressed in this review and promises for the near future are described. |
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Arjan Vissink; Hendrika Bootsma; Fred Kl Spijkervet; Shen Hu; David T Wong; Cees Gm Kallenberg |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-2 |
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Title: Current pharmaceutical biotechnology Volume: - ISSN: 1873-4316 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-2 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100960530 Medline TA: Curr Pharm Biotechnol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, AA21 University Medical Center Groningen, PO-Box 30.001 , 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. c.g.m.kallenberg@reuma.umcg.nl. |
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