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Desmin, a desmuslin-interacting protein, has been implicated in hereditary distal myopathies implying that desmuslin itself may also be involved in myopathies of unknown etiology.
Research into the etiology of schizophrenia has never been as interesting or as provocative as in the past three years.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic debilitating autoimmune disease of unknown etiology.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness but its molecular etiology is poorly understood.
With respect to inflammatory bowel disease, MAdCAM-1 appears to be essential to the lymphocyte homing to the mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) [ 6 37 38 46 ] . Since MAdCAM-1 is normally expressed mainly within the gut microvasculature, and is dramatically amplified during IBD, it has been suggested that increased MAdCAM-1 expression contributes to the etiology of IBD through its ability to direct homing of lymphocytes to the gut.