Title: autoimmune nephritis
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - autoimmune nephritis
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.13506
Status: current

Definition
Inflammation of the kidney due to immunological reaction to renal antigens.

Note
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].

Related Terms
- ANCA-associated vasculitis: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12897
- Goodpasture disease: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13178
- Sjögren syndrome: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13680
- autoantigens: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12914
- autoimmune: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12918
- cryoglobulinemic vasculitis: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13061
- systemic autoimmune diseases: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13709
- systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13710

Source
- 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)

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- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13506/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13506/xml

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
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