New treatment approach for autoimmune disorder

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been able to improve their understanding of the key mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of a serious autoimmune disease. For the first time, researchers were able to demonstrate a close link between the activation of programmed cell death, complement system activation, and organ damage in patients with systemic inflammation of blood vessels caused by 'ANCA antibodies'. Results from this resea...