Auto Immune Disease
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T-cell discovery holds promise for organ transplant and immunodeficiency treatment
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New genetic risk factors of lupus found in study of African-American women
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Auto-immune disease: The viral route is confirmed
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Estrogen is responsible for slow wound healing in women
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New strategies for treatment of infectious diseases
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Autoimmune diseases arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in autoimmune thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney). The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response.
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