"Sjogren's Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in which the salivary and lacrimal glands undergo progressive destruction by lymphocytes and plasma cells resulting in decreased production of saliva and tears. The primary form, often called sicca syndrome, involves both KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA and XEROSTOMIA. The secondary form includes, in addition, the presence of a connective tissue disease, usually rheumatoid arthritis.
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D012859
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C05.550.114.154.774 C05.799.114.774 C07.465.815.929.669 C11.496.260.719 C17.300.775.099.774 C20.111.199.774
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sjogren's Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
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Jord?n-Gonz?lez P, Gago-Pi?ero R, V?zquez-Sanabria I, P?rez-R?os N, Vil? LM. Factors Associated With Disease Damage in Puerto Ricans With Primary Sj?gren Syndrome. J Clin Rheumatol. 2020 Oct; 26(7S Suppl 2):S101-S105.
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Sander DM, Szabo S, Gallaher WR, Deas JE, Thompson JJ, Cao Y, Luo-Zhang H, Liu LG, Colmegna I, Koehler J, Espinoza LR, Alexander SS, Hart DJ, Tom DM, Fermin CD, Jaspan JJ, Kulakosky PC, Tenenbaum SA, Wilson RB, Garry RF. Involvement of human intracisternal A-type retroviral particles in autoimmunity. Microsc Res Tech. 2005 Nov; 68(3-4):222-34.
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Fermin CD, Garry RF. [Possible involvement of a recently discovered human retrovirus in idiopathic immunologic disorders, including Sj?gren syndrome (autoimmune exocrinopathy)]. HNO. 1993 May; 41(5):239-49.
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Garry RF, Fermin CD, Hart DJ, Alexander SS, Donehower LA, Luo-Zhang H. Detection of a human intracisternal A-type retroviral particle antigenically related to HIV. Science. 1990 Nov 23; 250(4984):1127-9.