Necrotizing fasciitis and myositis are devastating infections characterized by high mortality. Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of these infections, but the molecular pathogenesis is poorly understood. We report a genome-wide analysis using serotype M1 and M28 strains that identified
Polymyositis-dermatomyositis is a rare systemic autoimmune disease which belongs to the class of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The disease exhibits high inter-individual variability, but chronic myositis is a common feature. As different manifestations often appear in atypical forms,
OBJECTIVE
To describe two cases of successfully prevented refeeding syndrome in a high-risk group of patients.
METHODS
Case 1 was a 70-y-old woman who presented with a 4-mo history of poor dietary intake and ill health due to a connective tissue disease leading to myositis and dysphagia and
Fibric acid derivatives are a class of hypolipidaemic drugs used in the treatment of patients with hypertriglyceridaemia, mixed hyperlipidaemia and diabetic dyslipidaemia. Fibrate therapy results in a significant decrease in serum triglycerides and an increase in high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
β-Amyloid (Aβ), a small, fibrillogenic peptide, is known to play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the brain. In addition, Aβ accumulates in skeletal muscle cells in individuals with sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), an age-related muscle disease. Because of
Mannose binding lectin (MBL) generally plays a protective role during viral infection, yet MBL-mediated complement activation promotes Ross River virus (RRV)-induced inflammatory tissue destruction, contributing to arthritis and myositis. As MBL binds to carbohydrates, we hypothesized that N-linked
Transcriptional regulatory networks are fundamental to how microbes alter gene expression in response to environmental stimuli, thereby playing a critical role in bacterial pathogenesis. However, understanding how bacterial transcriptional regulatory networks function during host-pathogen
To evaluate the distribution of radiological characteristics stratified by different myositis-specific autoantibodies, identify prognostic value of high-resolution CT (HRCT) patterns in DM-associated interstitial lung disease (DM-ILD), and explore the possible mechanism associated with
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