Introduction: the immune diseases (ID) are pathologies where the immune system homeostasis is deregulated, leading to clinical manifestations as hyperresponsiveness to allergen, chronic inflammation, even autoimmune response. Example of these are asthma, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). For its etiology, they are multifactorial diseases in which...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory and autoimmune disease of multifactorial etiology that mainly affects women. Various environmental and genetic factors contribute to its development. Some genes that code proteins and that regulate the immune system have been associated with susceptibility to RA. One of them is the VEGF-A...