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A Chronic Autoimmune Dry Eye Rat Model with Increase in Effector Memory T Cells in Eyeball Tissue
Published on: June 7, 2017
[OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE]
Asaf Achiron1, Zohar Habot-Wilner1
1Department of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Introduction:
The current issue of the journal "Harefuah" presents original research and review articles describing various eye diseases related to autoimmune conditions. The eye disease may appear as one of the signs of a general disease in the body, which is sometimes even diagnosed for the first time thanks to the eye symptoms and after a thorough investigation that includes various tests, while sometimes it is a sole eye disease of autoimmune origin against the components of the eye. This issue includes a wide variety of studies describing various inflammatory processes in the anterior, intermediate and posterior segments of the eye. The studies report special cases, some of which are related to findings in other body systems and emphasize the pathophysiology and clinical course of the disease as well as the therapeutic challenges and treatment results.
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