The eyedrops Larkin and his team developed contain a synthetic peptide that acts to block the pathways which cause the ...

Research in horses may eventually lead to a treatment for people who develop blindness as a result of the autoimmune disease ...

Picture a horse running across an open field, the wind blowing his mane, his hooves stamping into the grassy knoll, eyes on ...

Uveitis results from imbalance between inflammatory mechanisms and regulatory mechanisms. Several immune cells are involved in this process. The balance between T helper 17 (Th17) cells and ...

When all three areas are inflamed, it's called panuveitis. Many things can cause uveitis, from infection and injury to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Left untreated, inflammation can cause ...

The pathophysiology of the inflammatory process in MS-associated uveitis is not well understood but may involve an autoimmune attack against a common antigen in both the CNS and the eye.

Researchers from Sun Yat-Sen University and affiliated organizations presented data from a study that aimed to investigate mechanisms by which the CXC chemokine receptor 3 (CXCR3) antagonist, AMG-487, ...

The NEI’s Reiko Horai, Rachel Caspi, and their colleagues used a mouse model prone to developing uveitis and found that the animals ... to show the potential of the microbiome to induce an autoimmune ...

These findings contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind anterior uveitis and its connection to common autoimmune diseases. Each year, approximately 600 Finns are diagnosed ...

Immune therapies for cancer attempt to harness ... Figure 2: Severe vitiligo and uveitis induced by adoptive immunotherapy for melanoma. Antigen-non-specific therapies. Given the current state ...

The common forms of autoimmune disease attack a specific part of the body. For example the brain is attacked in multiple sclerosis and the retina is attacked in inflammatory eye disease or uveitis.