{"term":{"id":"13506","title":"autoimmune nephritis","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - autoimmune nephritis","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13506","code":"13506","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: autoimmune nephritis","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Inflammation of the kidney due to immunological reaction to renal antigens.","notes":{"1":"Common examples are anti-glomerular basement membrane disease (Goodpasture disease or syndrome), autoimmune tubulointerstitial nephritis with antibody to tubular basement membrane, or occurring as part of systemic autoimmune diseases independent of renal autoantigens [lupus nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), interstitial nephritis in Sjögren syndrome, nephritis in ANCA-associated vasculitis, cryoglobulinemic vasculitis, or hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome]."},"links":[{"term":"ANCA-associated vasculitis","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12897"},{"term":"Goodpasture disease","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13178"},{"term":"Sjögren syndrome","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13680"},{"term":"autoantigens","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12914"},{"term":"autoimmune","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12918"},{"term":"cryoglobulinemic vasculitis","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13061"},{"term":"systemic autoimmune diseases","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13709"},{"term":"systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13710"}],"sources":["PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1220 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-11-06-03)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13506\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13506\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13506\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'autoimmune nephritis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13506","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-01T03:09:38+00:00"}}