or prominent changes suggestive of another disease Interface hepatitis, moderate to severe No biliary lesions, granulomas, or prominent changes suggestive of another disease AIH = autoimmune ...

[12] Autoimmune hepatitis type 3 [13,14] is characterized by autoantibodies against a soluble liver antigen/liver pancreas (SLA/LP) identified as UGA-suppressor serine transfer RNA (tRNA)-protein ...

finding that 89 percent of the children with acute hepatitis—but only 16 percent of Scottish children in general—carry an allele of the HLA-DRB1 gene that was previously associated with autoimmune ...

Researchers have uncovered how chronic hepatitis C infection leads to autoimmune disease, which opens new paths for treatments Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have ...

Chronic hepatitis C infection can lead to autoimmune disease through a "perfect storm" of mutations in B cells, rather than the previously believed mechanism of molecular mimicry.

Standard immunosuppressive therapy, consisting of prednisone and azathioprine, is ineffective in 10–20% of patients with autoimmune hepatitis. Inductivo-Yu and colleagues, therefore ...

(American Journal of Gastroenterology) Researchers in the Journal of Hepatology reviewed recent advances in autoimmune hepatitis.

The research, published in the journal Immunity, focuses on hepatitis C virus (HCV)—which affects an estimated 58 million people worldwide—and its role in triggering a serious autoimmune ...