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• Neurotoxic autoantibodies mediate congenital cortical impairment of offspring in maternal lupus.

  Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease mediated by autoantibodies and preferentially affecting women of childbearing age. Because…

  Authors: Ji Y Lee, Patricio T Huerta, Jie Zhang, Czeslawa Kowal, Eva Bertini, Bruce T Volpe, Betty Diamond

  Source: Nature medicine. 2009 Jan

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• Cognition and immunity; antibody impairs memory.

  Patients with lupus (SLE) experience progressive cognitive loss without evidence of CNS vascular disease or inflammation. SLE patients produce anti-DN…

  Authors: Czeslawa Kowal, Lorraine A DeGiorgio, Tsukasa Nakaoka, Hoby Hetherington, Patricio T Huerta, Betty Diamond, Bruce T Volpe

  Source: Immunity. 2004 Aug

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• Autoantibodies that bind glomeruli: cross-reactivity with bacterial antigen.

  OBJECTIVE: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by the production of multiple autoantibodies. Anti-DNA antibodies are associated with g…

  Authors: Iftikhar A Chowdhry, Czeslawa Kowal, John Hardin, Zhijie Zhou, Betty Diamond

  Source: Arthritis and rheumatism. 2005 Aug

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• Immunity and acquired alterations in cognition and emotion: lessons from SLE.

  Classic immunologic teaching describes the brain as an immunologically privileged site. Studies of neuroimmunology have focused for many years almost …

  Authors: Betty Diamond, Czeslawa Kowal, Patricio T Huerta, Cynthia Aranow, Meggan Mackay, Lorraine A DeGiorgio, Ji Lee, Antigone Triantafyllopoulou, Joel Cohen-Solal, Bruce T Volpe

  Source: Advances in immunology. 2006

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• Human recombinant Fab fragments with sub-nanomolar affinities for acetylated histones.

  Acetylation of lysines at different sites in the N-terminus of core histones is a common mode of chromatin modification; different combinations of suc…

  Authors: Iglika Batova, Czeslawa Kowal, Rena May, Matthew D Scharff, Betty Diamond

  Source: Journal of immunological methods. 2008 Jan 1

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• Losing your nerves? Maybe it's the antibodies.

  We propose that the normal immunocompetent B cell repertoire is replete with B cells making antibodies that recognize brain antigens. Although B cells…

  Authors: Betty Diamond, Patricio T Huerta, Paola Mina-Osorio, Czeslawa Kowal, Bruce T Volpe

  Source: Nature reviews. Immunology. 2009 Jun

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• XBP1 governs late events in plasma cell differentiation and is not required for antigen-specific memory B cell development.

  The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a stress response pathway that is driven by the increased load of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulu…

  Authors: Derrick J Todd, Louise J McHeyzer-Williams, Czeslawa Kowal, Ann-Hwee Lee, Bruce T Volpe, Betty Diamond, Michael G McHeyzer-Williams, Laurie H Glimcher

  Source: The Journal of experimental medicine. 2009 Sep 28

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• Immunity and behavior: antibodies alter emotion.

  Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease in which most patients express Abs that bind double-stranded DNA. Recent work has shown that a s…

  Authors: Patricio T Huerta, Czeslawa Kowal, Lorraine A DeGiorgio, Bruce T Volpe, Betty Diamond

  Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Jan 17

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• Human lupus autoantibodies against NMDA receptors mediate cognitive impairment.

  Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus, which often entails cognitive disturbances and memory loss, has become a major complication for lupus p…

  Authors: Czeslawa Kowal, Lorraine A Degiorgio, Ji Y Lee, Mark A Edgar, Patricio T Huerta, Bruce T Volpe, Betty Diamond

  Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Dec 26

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