AUTOIMMUNITY

Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism in recognizing its own constituent parts as self, thus leading to an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease. Prominent examples include Celiac disease, diabetes mellitus type 1, Sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren's syndrome, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves' disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Addison's Disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and allergies. Autoimmune diseases are very often treated with steroids.

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autoimmunity

Noun

  1. The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.


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