Measuring the levels of the blood marker soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) in patients with suspected sarcoidosis offers more sensitive diagnostic…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
While the protein osteopontin is elevated in the blood of people with sarcoidosis, the increased levels are not determined by…
Patients with sarcoidosis have more than twice the risk of bone fractures compared to healthy people, a finding most likely…
Understanding which molecules, genes and proteins are active or inactive in sarcoidosis patients may help explain differences in the disease’s…
A screening of bacterial species found in the lymph nodes of people with sarcoidosis confirms that bacteria, known to cause…
Researchers examining an infant born with a rare mutation that causes early-onset sarcoidosis demonstrated that a skin rash and persistent…
Researchers have discovered that the chronic activation of a molecule that acts as a metabolic sensor in mice may be…
Researchers have developed a way of discriminating between patients who have sarcoidosis complicated by pulmonary hypertension (PH) and those without…
A very unusual case in which a woman simultaneously developed pulmonary sarcoidosis and the rare skin disease pemphigus herpetiformis could provide…
Abnormal thymus growth may cause sarcoidosis in certain patients, a case report recently demonstrated. As immune T-cells mature in this…