Pregnancy and lactation

L Suresh, L Radfar - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral …, 2004 - Elsevier
Pregnancy results in physiologic changes in almost all organ systems in the body mediated
mainly by female sex hormones. Physiologic changes of pregnancy influence the dental …

Variants at multiple loci implicated in both innate and adaptive immune responses are associated with Sjögren's syndrome

CJ Lessard, H Li, I Adrianto, JA Ice, A Rasmussen… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Sjögren's syndrome is a common autoimmune disease (affecting∼ 0.7% of European
Americans) that typically presents as keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia. Here we …

Comparison of the American-European Consensus Group Sjögren's syndrome classification criteria to newly proposed American College of Rheumatology criteria in …

A Rasmussen, JA Ice, H Li, K Grundahl… - Annals of the …, 2014 - ard.bmj.com
Objective To compare the performance of the American–European Consensus Group
(AECG) and the newly proposed American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification …

Genome‐wide DNA methylation patterns in naive CD4+ T cells from patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome

N Altorok, P Coit, T Hughes, KA Koelsch… - Arthritis & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease with
incompletely understood etiology. This study was undertaken to investigate the role of …

Structural and functional injury in minipig salivary glands following fractionated exposure to 70 Gy of ionizing radiation: an animal model for human radiation-induced …

L Radfar, DA Sirois - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral …, 2003 - Elsevier
This study explored the feasibility of developing an animal model for radiation-induced
salivary gland injury with a radiation protocol identical to current clinical practice. Three male …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren's risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells

B Khatri, KL Tessneer, A Rasmussen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sjögren's disease is a complex autoimmune disease with twelve established susceptibility
loci. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies ten novel genome-wide …

X chromosome dose and sex bias in autoimmune diseases: increased prevalence of 47, XXX in systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren's syndrome

K Liu, BT Kurien, SL Zimmerman… - Arthritis & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective More than 80% of autoimmune disease predominantly affects females, but the
mechanism for this female bias is poorly understood. We suspected that an X chromosome …

A comparative treatment study of topical tacrolimus and clobetasol in oral lichen planus

L Radfar, RC Wild, L Suresh - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Existing clinical trials have shown that topical corticosteroids are often
effective in the management of oral lichen planus (OLP). However, tacrolimus has recently …

Prevalence and clinical significance of lymphocytic foci in minor salivary glands of healthy volunteers

L Radfar, DE Kleiner, PC Fox… - Arthritis Care & …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To determine the prevalence and severity of focal lymphocytic sialadenitis in
minor salivary glands of healthy, asymptomatic individuals, in whom Sjögren's syndrome …

Klinefelter's syndrome (47, XXY) is in excess among men with Sjögren's syndrome

VM Harris, R Sharma, J Cavett, BT Kurien, K Liu… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) has a strong female bias. We evaluated an X
chromosome dose effect by analyzing 47, XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome, 1 in 500 live male …