Endothelial damage and autoimmune diseases.
This issue of Autoimmunity reviews the mechanisms that lead to vascular damage in systemic autoimmune diseases. In addition, this issue explores recent advances in the understanding of how abnormalities in angiogenesis present in autoimmune diseases may lead to tissue damage and/or to premature vascular disease.
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Mariana J
MJ
Kaplan
D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000276:immunology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000276:immunology*