Impaired immune response as cause of rare autoimmune diseases

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 10:50 in Health & Medicine

The effects of infections on the generation of rare autoimmune diseases such as granulomatous polyangiitis (GPA), a systemic disease of the vascular system, have been examined in a new study. The central result: impaired immune response is significantly involved in these diseases.

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