Lupus Nephritis

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. As with other autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks the body’s cells and tissue resulting in inflammation...

Variant Forms of Lupus

Discoid lupus erythematosus DLE

Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a disease of the skin causing atrophy, scarring and photosensitivity. DLE affects between 17 and 48 per 100,000 people, occuring twice as often in women. The cha...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus SLE

Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by acute and chronic inflammation of various tissues of the body. Because the antibodies and accompanying cells of inflammation can affect tissues anywhe...

World Lupus Day: Lupus organizations to rally together to raise awareness of lupus

The Lupus Foundation of America and lupus organizations around the globe are rallying together on May 10, World Lupus Day, to urge action and raise awareness of lupus, a mysterious and devastating dis...

Lupus Treatment | How “Lupus Bible” Helps People Get Rid Of Lupus Condition Permanently – Tony Nguyen

Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) March 08, 2013 Lupus Bible is the new achievement of Julia Liu, who claims to give people the lupus treatment to help them get rid of their lupus disease permanently and natur...

Barriers to overcome in lupus drug development

It has taken the lupus research community over 50 years to produce a new therapy. Although it is now a year old, Benlysta (belimumab), now marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and Human Genome Sciences, is the...

Lupus Research Institute awards first $1M private sector grants to uncover lupus causes

(Lupus Research Institute) The Lupus Research Institute announced the first $1 million privately funded research grants given to lupus investigators. The LRI Distinguished Innovator Initiative was cr...

1-Oxoeudesm-11(13)-eno-12,8a-lactone induces G2/M arrest and apoptosis of human glioblastoma cells in vitro

Michigan Lupus Foundation: New Name, Same Great Services

St. Clair Shores, Michigan (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 The Michigan Lupus Foundation represents the over 85,000 Lupus Warriors in Michigan and northern Indiana, and is the only nonprofit organization...

Lupus Research Institute Co-Hosts Lupus Congressional Briefing to Highlight Serious Unmet Needs in Lupus

NEW YORK, July 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) joined with members of the U.S. Congressional Lupus Caucus and other lupus community partners in sponsoring a Congressio...

New structural scaffold 14-membered macrocyclic lactone ring for selective inhibitors of cell wall peptidoglycan biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus

Theoretical and experimental investigation of the structural and spectroscopic properties of coumarin 343 fluoroionophores.

A joint theoretical-experimental investigation has been carried out to unravel the details of the complexation of cations by fluoroionophores based on coumarin 343 and to interpret the modifications i...

Spectrofluorimetric Determination of Coumarin in Commercial Tablets.

A simple, rapid and effective analytical method based on fluorescence spectroscopy for the determination of coumarin in pharmaceutical formulations without pre-treatment or pre-concentration step was...

A new cytotoxic coumarin, 7-(E)-3',7'-dimethyl-6'-oxo-2',7'-octadienyl oxy Coumarin, from the leaves of Zanthoxylum schinifolium.

A new coumarin, 7-[(E)-3',7'-Dimethyl-6'-oxo-2',7'-octadienyl]oxy coumarin (1), together with three known compounds, schinilenol (2), schinindiol (3) and 7-[(E)-7'-hydroxy-3',7'-dimethylocta-2',5'-die...

Coumarin metabolic routes in Aspergillus spp.

Coumarin metabolism by several Aspergillus strains was studied. Aspergillus ochraceus and Aspergillus niger carried out the reduction of the C3-C4 double bond to yield dihydrocoumarin in 24h. Meanwhil...

Cytotoxic tirucallane C(26) triterpenoids from the stem barks of Aphanamixis grandifolia.

Five tirucallane type C(26) triterpenoids, accompanied by two known compounds, 3α-hydroxy-24,25,26,27-tetranortirucall-7-ene-23(21)-lactone and 3-oxo-24,25,26,27-tetranortirucall-7-ene-23(21)-lactone...