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Experts uncover clue in rosacea progress
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My family are the poster children of autoimmune disease. Darn it, is there ANY medical condition that we have that ISN'T an autoimmune disease?
bkseiver!Experts uncover clue in rosacea progress
The most relevant part:
Researchers now believe they have found a key mechanism that drives rosacea, [...]It's another autoimmune disease!
Overproduction of two inflammatory proteins results in excessive levels of a third protein that leads to rosacea symptoms, a research team reported in Sunday's online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
The team found that small proteins called anti-microbial peptides caused the same skin symptoms that are seen in rosacea. The peptides are part of the body's immune system.
"When we then looked at patients with the disease, every one of them had far more peptides than normal," Dr. Richard L. Gallo, chief of the division of dermatology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, said in a statement.
My family are the poster children of autoimmune disease. Darn it, is there ANY medical condition that we have that ISN'T an autoimmune disease?
