Autoimmune disease

Autoimmune Disease
Related Category: Pathology
any of a number of abnormal conditions caused when the body produces antibodies to its own substances.
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Autoimmune diseases are more frequent in women than in men. It is felt that the estrogen of females may influence the immune system to predispose some women to autoimmune diseases.
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Autoimmune diseases are disorders in which the body's immune system reacts against itself and produces antibodies to attack its own healthy cells and tissue.
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Autoimmune Diseases. People with many autoimmune diseases have a higher risk for hypothyroidism. Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes poses a higher risk and is a special problem since hypothyroidism can affect insulin requirements.
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Autoimmune Diseases Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity
Autoallergy, Self-Allergy
The condition in which antibodies are produced against the body's own tissues. An immune response to "self" tissues or components.
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Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System - Disorders caused by cellular or humoral immune responses primarily directed towards nervous system autoantigens.
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Autoimmune disease
Condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own organs and tissues.
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Autoimmune Diseases
When the body's immune system functions properly, it creates protein-like substances called antibodies and immunoglobulins to protect the body against invading organisms.
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Autoimmune diseaseA disease that develops when the immune system attacks normal cells or organs.
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Autoimmune disease
Disease in which the body makes antibodies against its own cells or tissues.
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AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE: A condition that results when the immune system responds against a person's own tissues or cells.
AUTOIMMUNIZATION: Inducing immunity against the body's own tissues.
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In autoimmune diseases the body perceives part of itself as being foreign and triggers an immune reaction whereby it attacks itself.
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Why autoimmune diseases occur still isn't well understood. But doctors believe that like many diseases, lupus results from a combination of factors, which may include heredity, environment and hormones.
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RA is an autoimmune disease, which means your own immune system starts to attack some of your tissues.
Symptoms develop as the result of many other factors as well, including: ...
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Vaccine for autoimmune diseases. A vaccine has been developed to "re-educate" a person's immune system and switch off the inflammatory processes that cause such diseases as rheumatoid arthritis.
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A degenerative autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland that ultimately results in a marked reduction in the amount of thyroid hormone produced.
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Many other conditions can cause positive screening test results, including illegal drug use (injectable drugs), recent vaccinations, pregnancy, endocarditis, autoimmune diseases (such as systemic lupus erythematosus), tuberculosis, mononucleosis, ...
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Many patients have a history of autoimmune disease, such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis or Sjgren's syndrome, or of Helicobacter gastritis. Most patients present with stage I or stage II extranodal disease, which is most often in the stomach.
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Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease, which means the body's defense mechanism - the immune system - begins to attack the body's own tissues instead of foreign invaders, such as viruses.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus, SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system attacks various organs or cells of the body causing damage and dysfunction.
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease, which means that the immune system loses its ability to differentiate between 'bad,' or foreign materials, and its own cells and tissues. The body, essentially, begins to attack itself.
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Many HLA molecules exist, but some are of special interest because they are more common in certain autoimmune diseases.
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This autoimmune disease results from severe inflammation in the basement membranes of the glomerulus, and the alveolus of the lung. Inflammation occurs due to the formation of antibodies to components of the basement membrane at both sites.
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It is thought to be an autoimmune disease that causes malfunctioning of the enzyme, acetylcholine, which is responsible for inducing muscles to contract.
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Type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Type 1 diabetes occurs most often in children and young adults, but it can develop at any age.
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RA is an autoimmune disease. This means that the body's defenses against infection attack the body's own tissue. It causes redness and swelling, stiffness, and deformity. It usually affects the joints of the hands, arms, and feet.
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The mechanism or cause of autoimmune diseases is not fully known, but many researchers suspect it occurs following infection with an organism that looks similar to particular proteins in the body, ...
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PREDNISONE - Drug used to treat a number of autoimmune diseases. Broken down by body into a product normally produced by the adrenal gland. Has broad immunosuppressive effects and is often used for management of organ transplant recipients.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease, triggered when the immune system produces abnormal antibodies that attack the connective tissue of the skin, joints, kidneys, lungs, heart and central nervous system.
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This disease is associated with other autoimmune diseases, including the following:
Thyroiditis
Type 1 diabetes
Ulcerative colitis
Hemolytic anemia
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A substance that decreases immune responses in the body. It is used to treat some autoimmune diseases, and is being studied as a treatment for graft-versus-host disease. Hydroxychloroquine belongs to the family of drugs called antiprotozoals.
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In the case of Grave's disease, the thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone, which leads to many problems throughout the body. It is believed that Grave's disease is an autoimmune disease, ...
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HY-TEC automated diagnostic system Fully automated autoimmune system for diagnostic testing of allergy and autoimmune diseases; a total of 13 test kits are available. See PSL Group/Hy-Tec. Mfg: Hycor Biomedical Inc. Source: PSL Group - 1/8/97.
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