Autoimmune Disorders
An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorders. See also: Immune… More »
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... Autoimmune disorders are conditions caused by an immune response against the body's own tissues.
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There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, and some have similar symptoms. This makes it hard for your health care provider to know if you really have one of these diseases, and if so, which one. Getting diagnosed can ... Autoimmune Disorder Linked to Stroke, Heart Attack in Women(09/28/2009, HealthDay)
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Overview of the immune system and autoimmune disorders, tests for autoimmune disorders ... What are autoimmune disorders? ; Autoimmune disorders are diseases caused by the body producing an inappropriate immune response against its own tissues.
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Autoimmune disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells. This may...
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Autoimmunity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self , which allows an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an ...
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Studies on the C3H/HeJ mouse and the DEBR have corroborated the concept that alopecia areata is a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease and various steps and aspects of the pathogenesis have been elucidated.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16285322
OBJECTIVES: There have been many studies suggesting that localized scleroderma has a strong autoimmune background, ... Here we summarize previous data on the autoimmunity of localized scleroderma, mostly published in the last two decades, because there has not been a review paper summarizing autoimmunity in this disorder.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/15561734