• Infectious triggers of primary biliary cirrhosis: Do we know enough? 

      Smyk, D.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Zen, Y.; Koutsoumpas, A.; Baum, H.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2011)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an immune mediated liver disease directed against the biliary epithelial cells of the small bile ducts. The disease is characterised by circulating antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA), as ...
    • Potential Roles for Infectious Agents in the Pathophysiology of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: What's New? 

      Smyk, D. S.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2013)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive cholestatic liver disease serologically characterized by the presence of high-titer antimitochondrial antibodies and, histologically by chronic nonsuppurative cholangitis ...
    • Toll-like receptors and their role in renal pathologies 

      Eleftheriadis, T.; Pissas, G.; Liakopoulos, V.; Stefanidis, I.; Lawson, B. R. (2012)
      Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are the first identified and best studied family of pattern recognition receptors. Expressed in immunocytes, TLRs initiate innate immune responses and concurrently shape the subsequent adaptive ...