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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.918619
Keywords
microbiome; autoimmunity; inflammation; Sjogren's syndrome; pathogenesis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81971545, 82172343]
- CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) [2020-I2M-C, T-A-002]
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Sjogren's syndrome, a common chronic autoimmune disease, is associated with microbial dysbiosis. The alterations in the microbiota correlate with disease severity.
Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is a common chronic systemic autoimmune disease and its main characteristic is lymphoid infiltration of the exocrine glands, particularly the salivary and lacrimal glands, leading to sicca symptoms of the mouth and eyes. Growing evidence has shown that SS is also characterized by microbial perturbations like other autoimmune diseases. Significant alterations in diversity, composition, and function of the microbiota were observed in SS. The dysbiosis of the microbiome correlates with worse symptoms and higher disease severity, suggesting that dysbiosis may be of great importance in the pathogenesis of SS. In this review, we provide a general view of recent studies describing the microbiota alterations of SS, the possible pathways that may cause microbiota dysbiosis to trigger SS, and the existence of the gut-ocular/gut-oral axis in SS.
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