What does autoimmunity mean?
Definitions for autoimmunity
au·toim·mu·ni·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
autoimmunitynoun
production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions
Wiktionary
autoimmunitynoun
The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
Etymology: From auto + immune response + -y.
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Autoimmunity
In immunology, autoimmunity is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells, tissues and other normal body constituents. Any disease resulting from this type of immune response is termed an "autoimmune disease". Prominent examples include celiac disease, post-infectious IBS, diabetes mellitus type 1, Henoch–Schönlein purpura (HSP) sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren syndrome, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves' disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Addison's disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis, polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), Alopecia Areata and multiple sclerosis (MS). Autoimmune diseases are very often treated with steroids.Autoimmunity means presence of antibodies or T cells that react with self-protein and is present in all individuals, even in normal health state. It causes autoimmune diseases if self-reactivity can lead to tissue damage.
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autoimmunity
Autoimmunity is a condition or phenomenon whereby the body's immune system mistakenly reacts to its own cells, tissues, or organs as if they were foreign invaders, such as bacteria or viruses, leading to their damage and dysfunction. This results in autoimmune diseases. The immune response includes production of antibodies or T cells that target specific parts of the body. Examples of autoimmune diseases include Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis.
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Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism in recognizing its own constituent parts as self, which allows 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 and allergies. Autoimmune diseases are very often treated with steroids. The misconception that an individual's immune system is totally incapable of recognizing self antigens is not new. Paul Ehrlich, at the beginning of the twentieth century, proposed the concept of horror autotoxicus, wherein a 'normal' body does not mount an immune response against its own tissues. Thus, any autoimmune response was perceived to be abnormal and postulated to be connected with human disease. Now, it is accepted that autoimmune responses are an integral part of vertebrate immune systems, normally prevented from causing disease by the phenomenon of immunological tolerance to self-antigens. Autoimmunity should not be confused with alloimmunity.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Autoimmunity
Process whereby the immune system reacts against the body's own tissues. Autoimmunity may produce or be caused by AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of autoimmunity in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of autoimmunity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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- autoimmunitatCatalan, Valencian
- autoimunitaCzech
- autoinmunidadSpanish
- sjálvórinFaroese
- autoimmunitàItalian
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