Health condition
Sjogren's Syndrome
What is Sjogren's Syndrome?
Chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in which the salivary and lacrimal glands undergo progressive destruction by lymphocytes and plasma cells resulting in decreased production of saliva and tears. The primary form, often called sicca syndrome, involves both KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA and XEROSTOMIA. The secondary form includes, in addition, the presence of a connective tissue disease, usually rheumatoid arthritis.
Biomedical terminology and classification based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Research evidence
This condition is included in the encyclopedia, but no sufficiently linked research records are currently available in the local evidence database.
Most studied probiotic strains
Probiotic effects can be strain-specific. The organisms below are ranked using publications currently linked to this condition.
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Key research
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