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April 2003 in “Clinical neurology and neurosurgery” This case study reports a 33-year-old man with autoimmune thyroiditis and alopecia universalis experiencing reversible CNS demyelination, possibly due to autoimmune activity against CNS antigens.
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March 2015 in “The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism” In this study, alopecia areata was associated with thyroid autoimmunity but not islet autoimmunity, correlating with specific class II HLA haplotypes linked to various autoimmune diseases.
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February 1986 in “Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry” This study found that monoclonal antibodies can identify specific immunological characteristics of hair fibrous proteins, with some antibodies reacting only with hair proteins and others showing broader activity with skin and epithelial cells.
January 2008 in “Bradford Scholars (University of Bradford)” This study supports that an antibody response against anagen-specific hair follicle antigens, including trichohyalin and keratin 16, may play a role in alopecia areata.
January 2019 in “Przegląd Dermatologiczny” This report presents a case of a 57-year-old woman with APS-4, generalized alopecia, and rheumatoid arthritis, emphasizing the need to screen for other autoimmune disorders in patients with a single organ-specific autoimmune disease.