About this Research Topic
Exemplary in this research field are novel B-cell and ANCA immunomonitoring in ANCA associated vasculitis in relation to treatment, histopathological determinants of renal biopsies in anti-GBM disease and IgA nephropathy. Many novel biomarkers are explored in different renal autoimmune diseases, such as IgG4 RNA signatures in AAV, neutrophil extracellular trap formation and degradation in lupus nephritis or complement factors in IgA nephropathy.
To foster knowledge and discussion on investigating and monitoring relevant immune phenomena in patients with renal autoimmune diseases, the present Research Topic aims to increase our understanding, in a broad sense, of relevant pathological mechanisms underpinning renal autoimmune diseases. In this way, we hope to also stimulate advances in urgently needed novel therapeutic strategies for renal autoimmune diseases.
We welcome the submission of Review, Mini-Review and Original Research articles covering the following renal autoimmune diseases:
1. ANCA associated vasculitis.
2. Lupus nephritis.
3. IgA nephropathy.
4. Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) both immune-complex mediated (e.g. cryoglobulinemia-associated MPGN) and non-immune complex-mediated (e.g. C3 glomerulopathy, aHUS-related nephropathies).
5. Anti-GBM disease.
6. Membranous nephropathy.
7. Renal involvement in systemic autoimmune diseases (e.g. Sjogren’s disease, polyarteritis nodosa, sarcoidosis, systemic sclerosis/scleroderma).
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