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Immunologist studying Lyme disease, arthritis, and infection-induced autoimmunity at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Antigen presentation is cool and ticks suck! Opinions my own.

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www.npr.org/sections/hea...

02.10.2023 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reading this thread reminds me of my lecture on Thymic Selection. Both help me me appreciate the value of tolerance.

14.09.2023 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RNA biologists, they have a real messaging problem.

14.09.2023 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just joined BS but I feel like we should connect. Iโ€™m an immunologist studying Lyme disease-induced autoimmunity. Also, minรค rakastan Suomea!

14.09.2023 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lyme arthritis: linking infection, inflammation and autoimmunity - Nature Reviews Rheumatology Lyme arthritis, a manifestation of Lyme disease, can sometimes persist in a chronic post-infectious disease. In this Review, the authors argue that post-infectious Lyme arthritis could act as a model ...

First post: our review on Lyme arthritis lays out how we think autoimmunity is triggered by Borrelia burgdorferi infection.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.09.2023 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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