Living With Lupus: Health Information Basics for You and Your Family Lupus is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease This webpage focuses on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most common form of lupus Lupus is different for each person and can affect different areas of the body, including: skin; joints; heart; lungs; kidneys; and the brain If you have lupus, you may have times of more symptoms (flares) and times of feeling better (remission)
Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic . . . The AMP RA SLE program used a molecular- and cellular-level approach (“disease deconstruction”) to uncover the biological pathways that play a role in RA and or SLE AMP RA SLE investigators conducted more than 100 synovial (joint) biopsies in RA and more than 200 renal biopsies in SLE
Lupus Clinical Trials Unit | NIAMS Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease that affects females nine times more often than males People with SLE are often treated with cyclophosphamide (CYC) But CYC can damage a woman s ovaries; it may cause infertility A drug called GnRHa is sometimes given to protect the ovaries during CYC therapy
Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated . . . Both AMP AIM and AMP RA SLE are components of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) which was created in 2014 as a collaborative effort between the NIH, the U S Food and Drug Administration, multiple biopharmaceutical and life science companies, nonprofit, and other organizations to transform the current model for developing new