• Biological mechanisms for chronic fatigue in primary Sjøgren`s syndrome 

      Norheim, Katrine Brække (Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-15)
      Background: Primary Sjøgren`s syndrome (pSS) is a chronic autoimmune disease, characterised by lymphocytic infiltration of exocrine glands and autoantibody production. Fatigue is a frequent phenomenon in pSS, associated ...
    • Complement C4 Copy Number Variation is Linked to SSA/Ro and SSB/La Autoantibodies in Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases 

      Lundtoft, Christian; Pucholt, Pascal; Martin, Myriam; Bianchi, Matteo; Lundström, Emeli; Eloranta, Maija-Leena; Sandling, Johanna K.; Sjöwall, Christopher; Jönsen, Andreas; Gunnarsson, Iva; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Bengtsson, Anders A.; Leonard, Dag; Baecklund, Eva; Jonsson, Roland; Hammenfors, Daniel; Forsblad-d'Elia, Helena; Eriksson, Per; Mandl, Thomas; Magnusson Bucher, Sara; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglæn; Omdal, Roald; Kvarnström, Marika; Wahren Herlenius, Marie Elisabeth; Notarnicola, Antonella; Andersson, Anna Helena; Molberg, Øyvind; Diederichsen, Louise Pyndt; Almlöf, Jonas; Syvänen, Ann-Christine; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Rönnblom, Lars; Brokstad, Karl Albert; Skarstein, Kathrine; Jonsson, Malin Viktoria; Appel, Silke; Aqrawi, Lara A.; Jensen, Janicke Liaaen; Palm, Øyvind; Nilsson, Birgitta Blakstad; Blom, Anna M.; Lundberg, Ingrid E.; Nordmark, Gunnel; Diaz-Gallo, Lina Marcela; Svenungsson, Elisabet; Rönnblom, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective Copy number variation of the C4 complement components, C4A and C4B, has been associated with systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases. This study was undertaken to investigate whether C4 copy number variation ...
    • Differential sensitivity of the 2020 revised comprehensive diagnostic criteria and the 2019 ACR/EULAR classification criteria across IgG4-related disease phenotypes: results from a Norwegian cohort 

      Vikse, Jens; Midtvedt, Øyvind; Fevang, Bjørg Tilde Svanes; Garen, Torhild Oddveig; Palm, Øyvind; Wallenius, Marianne; Bakland, Gunnstein; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Molberg, Øyvind; Hoffmann-Vold, Anna-Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background We investigated sensitivity of the 2020 Revised Comprehensive Diagnostic Criteria (RCD) and the 2019 ACR/EULAR classification criteria across the four identified IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) phenotypes: ...
    • Fatigue in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: A proteomic pilot study of cerebrospinal fluid 

      Larssen, Eivind; Brede, Cato; Hjelle, Anne; Tjensvoll, Anne Bolette; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Bårdsen, Kjetil; Jonsdottir, Kristin; Ruoff, Peter; Omdal, Roald; Nilsen, Mari Mæland (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Objectives: Fatigue is a frequent and often disabling phenomenon that occurs in patients with chronic inflammatory and immunological diseases, and the underlying biological mechanisms are largely unknown. Because fatigue ...
    • Fatigue in psoriasis: a phenomenon to be explored 

      Skoie, Inger Marie; Ternowitz, Thomas; Jonsson, Grete; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Omdal, Roald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05)
      Fatigue is a prevalent and substantial phenomenon in many patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, often rated by patients as the most troublesome symptom and aspect of their disease. It frequently interferes with ...
    • Genetic and clinical basis for two distinct subtypes of primary Sjögren's syndrome 

      Thorlacius, Gudny Ella; Hultin-Rosenberg, Lina; Sandling, Johanna K.; Bianchi, Matteo; Imgenberg-Kreuz, Juliana; Theander, Elke; Kvarnström, Marika; Forsblad-d’Elia, Helena; Bucher, Sara Magnusson; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglænd; Hammenfors, Sten Daniel; Skarstein, Kathrine; Jonsson, Malin V; Bäcklund, Eva; consortium, the DISSECT; meadows, jennifer r; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Mandl, Thomas; Eriksson, Per; Omdal, Roald; Jonsson, Sten Ture Roland; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Rönnblom, Lars; Wahren-Herlenius, Marie; Nordmark, Gunnel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Objectives Clinical presentation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) varies considerably. A shortage of evidence-based objective markers hinders efficient drug development and most clinical trials have failed to reach ...
    • Genetic variants at the RTP4/MASP1 locus are associated with fatigue in Scandinavian patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome 

      Norheim, Katrine Brække; Imgenberg-Kreuz, Juliana; Alexsson, Andrei; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglæn; Bårdsen, Kjetil; Brun, Johan Gorgas; Dehkordi, Rezvan Kiani; Theander, Elke; Mandl, Thomas; Jonsson, Roland; Ng, Wan-Fai; Lessard, Christopher J; Rasmussen, Astrid; Sivilis, Kathy; Rönnblom, Lars; Omdal, Roald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Objectives Fatigue is common and severe in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). The aim of this study was to identify genetic determinants of fatigue in pSS through a genome-wide association study. Methods Patients with ...
    • Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren’s risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells 

      Khatri, Bhuwan; Tessneer, Kandice L.; Rasmussen, Astrid; Aghakhanian, Farhang; Reksten, Tove Ragna; Adler, Adam; Alevizos, Ilias; Anaya, Juan-Manuel; Aqrawi, Lara A.; Baecklund, Eva; Brun, Johan Gorgas; Bucher, Sara Magnusson; Eloranta, Maija-Leena; Engelke, Fiona; Forsblad-d’Elia, Helena; Glenn, Stuart B.; Hammenfors, Daniel; Imgenberg-Kreuz, Juliana; Jensen, Janicke Liaaen; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglæn; Jonsson, Malin Viktoria; Kvarnström, Marika; Kelly, Jennifer A.; Li, He; Mandl, Thomas; Martín, Javier; Nocturne, Gaétane; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Palm, Øyvind; Skarstein, Kathrine; Stolarczyk, Anna M.; Taylor, Kimberly E.; Teruel, Maria; Theander, Elke; Venuturupalli, Swamy; Wallace, Daniel J.; Grundahl, Kiely M.; Hefner, Kimberly S.; Radfar, Lida; Lewis, David M.; Stone, Donald U.; Kaufman, C. Erick; Brennan, Michael T.; Guthridge, Joel M.; James, Judith A.; Scofield, R. Hal; Gaffney, Patrick M.; Criswell, Lindsey A.; Jonsson, Roland; Eriksson, Per; Bowman, Simon J.; Omdal, Roald; Rönnblom, Lars; Warner, Blake; Rischmueller, Maureen; Witte, Torsten; Farris, A. Darise; Mariette, Xavier; Alarcon-Riquelme, Marta E.; Shiboski, Caroline H.; Herlenius, Marie Elisabeth Wahren; Ng, Wan-Fai; Sivils, Kathy L.; Adrianto, Indra; Nordmark, Gunnel; Lessard, Christopher J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Sjögren’s disease is a complex autoimmune disease with twelve established susceptibility loci. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies ten novel genome-wide significant (GWS) regions in Sjögren’s cases of ...
    • Heat shock proteins and chronic fatigue in primary Sjögren's syndrome 

      Bårdsen, Kjetil; Mæland, Mari; Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Jonsson, Grete; Omdal, Roald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Fatigue occurs frequently in patients with cancer, neurological diseases and chronic inflammatory diseases, but the biological mechanisms that lead to and regulate fatigue are largely unknown. When the innate immune system ...
    • Interleukin-1 Inhibition and Fatigue in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome – A Double Blind, Randomised Clinical Trial 

      Norheim, Katrine Brække; Harboe, Erna; Gøransson, Lasse Gunnar; Omdal, Roald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)
      Objectives Fatigue is a major cause of disability in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Fatigue has similarities with sickness behaviour in animals; the latter mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokines, in particular interleukin ...
    • Severe headache in primary Sjögren's syndrome treated with intrathecal rituximab 

      Tjensvoll, Anne Bolette; Lauvsnes, Maria Boge; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Omdal, Roald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-17)
      A severe and persistent migrainous headache in a patient with primary Sjøgren's syndrome unresponsive to treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, triptans, opioids, and NSAIDs, responded successfully to intrathecal B‐cell ...
    • Strong association of combined genetic deficiencies in the classical complement pathway with risk of systemic lupus erythematosus and primary Sjögren's syndrome 

      Lundtoft, Christian; Sjöwall, Christopher; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Bengtsson, Anders A.; Jönsen, Andreas; Pucholt, Pascal; Wu, Yee Ling; Lundström, Emeli; Eloranta, Maija-Leena; Gunnarsson, Iva; Baecklund, Eva; Jonsson, Roland; Hammenfors, Daniel; Forsblad-d'Elia, Helena; Eriksson, Per; Mandl, Thomas; Bucher, Sara; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglæn; Omdal, Roald; Kvarnström, Marika; Wahren Herlenius, Marie Elisabeth; Truedsson, Lennart; Nilsson, Bo; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Bianchi, Matteo; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Yu, Chack-Yung; Nordmark, Gunnel; Sandling, Johanna K.; Svenungsson, Elisabet; Leonard, Dag; Rönnblom, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective Complete genetic deficiency of the complement component C2 is a strong risk factor for monogenic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but whether heterozygous C2 deficiency adds to the risk of SLE or primary ...