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| | Autoimmune diseases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Polyarthritis in dogs is an immune reaction severely affecting the joints of dogs. | | | Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body's immune system to attack the bone joints. | | | Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disorder
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| | Auto Immune Disorder |
| | An auto immune disease is a condition where the body's immune system or defense system begins to attack it's own healthy tissue. | | | Using both principles of acupuncture and bio energetic medicine the treatments are designed to eliminate and deactivate the "mycoplasma" thereby eliminating the reason for the immune system to attack. | | | These conditions, which are commonly considered to be "managed", but not "resolved", can now be approached through a new cutting edge procedure of bio energetic medicine called JMT (Jaffe Mellor Technique). |
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http://www.totalhealthmethods.com/autoimmune_disease.htm
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| | What is Autoimmune Disease? |
| | Immunology is the study of the immune system. | | | The immune system is our bodies natural defense mechanism against these attackers. | | | This cross-reaction occurs when the immune system is primed to attack the foreign antigen and any similar antigen, which in this case is the self. |
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http://www.healinglight.com/autoimmune/whatis.html
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| | Dog Owner's Guide: Autoimmune diseases |
| | In this situation, the ability of the immune system to recognize the "self" marker is lost, and it begins to attack and reject the body's own tissue as foreign. | | | As in other autoimmune diseases previously discussed, the primary goal of therapy is to suppress the body's immune response with large doses of systemic glucorticoids. | | | When the spleen and the rest of the immune system is working to rid the body of old, diseased, or damaged RBCs, it is doing its job appropriately. |
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http://www.canismajor.com/dog/autoimmn.html
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| | Autoimmune Disease |
| | In any attempt to reduce the incidence of one problem whether it is poor tail set, bad bites or autoimmune disease we must avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and maintain the loveable, outgoing breed which has been entrusted to our stewardship. | | | However, we should be careful to not stress our dogs’ immune systems. | | | In order to do this effectively it must be able to recognise what is self in order to respond to non-self or foreign. |
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http://bccc.pair.com/autoimmu.htm
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| | To Boost or Not to Boost the Immune System? |
| | People with HIV have been conditioned to seek therapies that will boost their immune system mainly because HIV disease is always presented as a deficiency that requires correcting. | | | These infections, most of which can be avoided by practicing safer sex, repeatedly stimulate an immune response and may hasten the progression of the disease by increasing virus production and exhausting the immune system. | | | Recently, a wealth of scientific information has begun to accumulate that suggests that stimulating the immune system may be more harmful than beneficial, especially in people with early disease. |
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http://www.aegis.com/pubs/bala/1992/BA920713.html
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| | Vaccinations and Immune Suppression |
| | Therefore, the best method to avoid the flu is to strengthen our immune system by eating properly and getting all the essential vitamins and minerals that our body needs. | | | Of course, anything which depresses our immunity will eventually lead to cancer, since it is our immune system which cleanses and eliminates mutated (cancerous) cells from our body daily. | | | Very likely, it is the foreign nature of SIV which makes it deadly to our immune system and our immune system goes on the blink. |
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http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/immune_suppression.htm
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| | Questions and Answers About Autoimmunity |
| | The damage affects the brain and/or spinal cord and interferes with the nerve pathways, causing muscular weakness, loss of coordination, and visual and speech problems. | | | Ankylosing spondylitis--A rheumatic disease that causes inflamed joints in the spine and sacroiliac (the joints that connect the spine and the pelvis) and, in some people, inflamed eyes and heart valves. | | | To learn more about autoimmunity, your immune system, or autoimmune diseases, speak with your doctor. |
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http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/autoimmune/autoimmunity.htm
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| | What's Hot: Auto-Immune Illnesses |
| | In rheumatoid arthritis the immune system causes painful swelling and stiffness of the joints, while in lupus, which affects mostly young women, the immune system attacks many organs causing rashes, kidney damage, fluid around the lungs, and inflamed lungs. | | | What happens when this balance goes wrong and this immune system mistakes the "you" and "non-you"? | | | Diabetic-Lifestyle offers recipes, menus, medical updates, entertaining, travel - practical information to enhance life while managing diabetes on a daily basis. |
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http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com/articles/oct98_whats_1.htm
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| | Systemic Solutions for Allergies |
| | An immune response is mobilized not against `foreign' matter, such as invading germs, but against your body itself. | | | You are said to have an allergy when your body is especially sensitive to an otherwise harmless substance (an allergen). | | | Your skin may redden and blister and your breathing may become strained. |
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http://www.soulwork.net/sw_articles_eng/allergies.htm
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| | Auto Immune Disorder Center |
| | Sometimes our immune system goes awry and mistakenly attacks our own tissues, resulting in a variety of what we call autoimmune disorders. | | | But the latest theories indicate that they all seem to involve defects in the immune system, hence are called autoimmune disorders. | | | When the immune system attacks bones and joints, we develop rheumatoid arthritis. |
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http://www.rxwellnesscenter.com/AutoImmune_Disorders.asp
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| | Leaky Gut Syndrome, Auto-Immune Disorders & Genetic Drift |
| | The best way to assist the immune system so that it can serve our interests most effectively would be to stop taking over-the counter and prescription drugs that can weaken or irritate the digestive system. | | | There is wisdom in such advice that is now becoming apparent through modern scientific study of the immune system disorders. | | | In Yin/Yang terms, an ability to clearly differentiate what is friend and foe is Yang; if this ability becomes confused, this indicates a Yin condition. |
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http://www.macrobiotic.org/vacc.htm
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| | UQ team finds molecular pathway to switch off auto-immune disease - UQ News Online - The University of Queensland |
| | The team achieved success by exploiting their understanding of the pathway controlling the interaction between dendritic cells and the immune system. | | | The work, which is still at the preliminary stages, also has implications for treating allergic diseases such as asthma, and making allografts safer. | | | "What`s different is that this is the first time it has been possible to suppress an existing response once the immune system has started down a deleterious pathway." |
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http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.phtml?article=4092
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| | Yeast and Auto-Immune Illnesses |
| | Candida is a very difficult organism for the body's immune system to clear. | | | If the body attacks the Candida in the intestinal tract, the body's immune system will attack anything which looks like the Candida. | | | So the body must rely on the other parts of the immune system. |
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http://www.nutritioninstitute.com/2.html
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| | Bulletin Board & Chat |
| | Any disease affecting the immune system is serious, but I wouldn't give up on alternative therapies, as well as using the more traditional antibiotics and medicine, especially when it is affecting something as precious as a horse! | | | As Reshan pointed out, the term deficiency indicates that the system is not functioning properly so that is why your mare does not heal and needs antibiotics. | | | Auto-immune deficiency would be normal - we should be immune to our "selves". |
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http://www.equinesite.com/discus/messages/13/7340.html
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| | Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly) |
| | mansoni affects the immune response to vaccine antigen. | | | Lewis(x)-containing oligosaccharide attenuates schistosome egg antigen-induced immune depression in human schistosomiasis. | | | Evaluating the immune response of asthmatic individuals infected with helminths, including S. |
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http://www.bioline.org.br/request?oc04082
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| | How Vaccinations Work |
| | There is no system of the human being, from mind to muscles to immune system, which gets stronger through avoiding challenges, but only through overcoming challenges. | | | The outcome of this line of thought is that, contrary to previous belief, vaccinations do not strengthen or "boost" the whole immune system. | | | My preceding explanation of how vaccinations affect the immune system is true also in animals. |
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http://www.garynull.com/Documents/niin/how_vaccinations_work.htm
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| | The Immune System in Allergy Formation |
| | There is, after all, a high degree of similarity between various mammalian animal proteins in our diet and those found in our bodies, even without considering the cases of cannibalism formerly found in various primitive societies, or occasionally encountered in conditions of extreme deprivation. | | | But they are things to look in to, and Doc finds that the general anti-candid a protocol helps most patients, as it relieves the immune system and strengthens its ability to select and deal with Specific problems. | | | Neither is the Candida Albecans, which Very Often preys upon those with misbehaving immune systems. |
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http://www.mall-net.com/mcs/immune.html
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| | auto immune disease? - Boxer Board |
| | She said that all her vet said was that it was auto immune bone disease. | | | Dogs with IMHA usually experience a sudden onset of clinical signs, including depression, lethargy, pale gums or conjunctiva, sometimes jaundice or a heart murmur and bruising. | | | Boxer Board > BOXER HEALTH FORUMS > Dog Health issues and questions |
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http://www.boxerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24485
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Autoimmune disorders |
| | Corticosteroids and immunosuppressant medications (including cyclophosphamide or azathioprine) are used to reduce the immune response. | | | Measures to assist mobility or other functions may be needed for disorders that affect the bones, joints, or muscles. | | | Autoimmune disorders are conditions caused by an immune response against the body's own tissues. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000816.htm
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| | Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Forum - MS- auto immune disease- not! |
| | According to the dominant theory of MS, when the researchers examined the hours-old lesion, they should have found the beginnings of an immune system attack. | | | It seems as though as soon as the doctors are sure that it's one thing, they change it to another. | | | The CRAB drug manufacturers have a huge problem if the immune system theory gets dismissed. |
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http://www.msfacts.org/dcforum/DCForumID2/3737.html
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| | Vaccines: Auto-immunity, Vaccinations and Autism |
| | The authors suggested that the humoral, immune response to myelin basic protein (MBP) could be related in some way to mental retardation, since approximately 60% of autistic children had an IQ of 70 of lower. | | | The autoimmune process in autism results from a complex interaction between the immune system and the nervous system. | | | Autistic patients also respond well to immune therapies. |
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http://www.healing-arts.org/children/vaccines/vaccines-auto-immunity.htm
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| | Great Moments in Science - Hybrid Auto-Immune Women |
| | This is way the immune system has evolved. | | | Auto-immune diseases happen when your immune system decides to attack one or more of your own organs. | | | Part of the reason for this is that the immune system is very big and complicated. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s992603.htm
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| | Boot's Story: Feline Stomatitis, Auto Immune Diseases & Interferon |
| | Current theories are that the cat develops an allergy to tartar. | | | Understanding Your Pet's Immune System - a good basic explanation of how the immune system works. | | | FIV & Interferon - "For a cat in the chronic stage, the relatively inexpensive drug alpha interferon can help stimulate the immune system." |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/9352/stomatitis.html
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| | Autoimmune Hepatitis |
| | The main treatment is medicine that suppresses the body's overactive immune system. | | | Epidemiologic research will help doctors understand what triggers autoimmune hepatitis in some people. | | | People who do not respond to standard immune therapy or who have severe side effects may benefit from other immunosuppressive agents like mycophenylate mofetil, cyclosporine or tacrolimus. |
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http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/autoimmunehep
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| | Homeopathy Online: Cover Story |
| | In a similar manner, the body may develop a tolerance for things which it would normally eliminate due to their harmful nature. | | | We don't yet fully understand the highly sensitive interplay between fight and tolerance in our immune system. | | | As a consequence, tumor cells would not be effectively recognized by the immune system and hence also not fully eliminated. |
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http://www.lyghtforce.com/HomeopathyOnline/issue2/cover2.html
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| | Importance of liver health in allergies, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, thyroid disorders |
| | As we all know, allergy and auto-immune problems (eg, arthritis) are caused by over-active immune systems. | | | When my liver became healthy in 1989, all of my allergy problems went away. | | | Nervousness, fatigue, exhaustion, frustrations, disappointment, anxieties or fear may aggravate allergies or arthritis because these emotions weaken the internal organs and immune system. |
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http://www.sensiblehealth.com/allergy.html
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| | Auto-Immune System Disease Questions and Answers |
| | You'll have to see how much your body needs and increase or decrease according to how you're feeling. | | | I would recommend taking the Ultra Body Toddy (1 ounce per 100 lbs. | | | With the toxins and pollutants come free-radical damage, this is what is destroying our immune systems and causing the auto-immune diseases. |
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http://www.healingwithnutrition.com/emailqa/autoimmune/autoimmunefaq.html
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| | canine auto immune diseases |
| | space between skin of ear flap and cartilage AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE- a condition where the dog reacts... | | | Veterinary Information - Immune Mediated Disorders of Dogs | | | Most of the immune mediated arthritis diseases are treated with... |
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http://www.health-megasite.com/articles/10/canine-auto-immune-diseases.html
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| | Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED) Clinical Trial |
| | AIED is currently treated with medications which affect the immune system, including prednisone, methotrexate, and Humira. | | | AIED is believed to be caused by a patient's altered immune system which causes inflammation of the inner ear. |
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http://www-surgery.ucsd.edu/ent/Research/ct_AIED.html
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| | Ask Peter D'Adamo reference for Auto-Immune |
| | There are auto-immune diseases caused by the immune system attacking a part of the body, which is what is meant by "overactive immune system". | | | There's an explanation of the mechanism in the link below. | | | In Response To: O's and Overactive Immune Systems? |
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http://www.dadamo.com/forum/archive7/config.pl?read=36936
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| | Fighting Computer Virus Infection through Auto-Immune Responses |
| | But of greater interest is that many of the concepts seem inspired by life. | | | To make a machine fault tolerant, for instance, is exactly what organisms strive for -- to develop an immune system that will aid in surviving adverse circumstances. | | | The computer's word processing software is unaware what the user is writing, or whether he or she has even left the room. |
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http://vx.netlux.org/lib/static/vdat/epautoim.htm
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| | Auto-Immune Protocol |
| | If you have a specific health concern and wish my personalized nutritional recommendation, write to me by clicking here. | | | · Avoid herbs that stimulate the immune system | | | The body's immune system attacks itself, causing many illnesses. |
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http://www.drlam.com/opinion/print/auto-immune_protocol.htm
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| | MavicaNET - Auto-Immune Disorders |
| | Discover how to regain the balance of your immune system and help your body rebuild itself. | | | Learn about autoimmune conditions, inflammation and the immune system. |
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| | National MS Society Sourcebook: Autoimmune Disease |
| | The prefix "auto" means "self." Autoimmunity means that the immune system is reacting against normally-occurring antigens in the person's body, as if these antigens were foreign. | | | Antigens are generally proteins that stimulate an immune response. | | | Multiple sclerosis is believed to be an autoimmune disease. |
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http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Sourcebook-Autoimmune.asp
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| | Auto Immune Disorders and Transfer Factor - Holistic Medicine and Natural Health |
| | Auto Immune Disorders and Transfer Factor - Holistic Medicine and Natural Health | | | Therapy for these types of disorders should include an immune system "modulator", such as the Transfer Factor. | | | Find out how you can modulate your immune system to defend against: Allergies, Asthma, Chronic Fatigue, Sinusitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Type 1 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Crohn's Disease, Lupus, Psoriasis, Eczema. |
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http://www.naturalhealthholistic.com/autoimmune.html
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| | Cynthia's Medical Websites - This page is links to various websites I created on a variety of auto immune conditions from Asthma to Lupus, to Pernicious Anemia. | | | Auto-Immune Disorders : Meddie Health Search - Home : Conditions and Diseases : Immune Disorders : Auto-Immune Disorders. | | | Wauu.DE: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Immune Disorders: Auto... |
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| | News in Science - Vaccine for auto-immune diseases a possibility - 20/01/2003 |
| | Toxicity testing in humans may begin at the end of 2003 or early in 2004, and clinical trials in transplantation should follow in 2004, he said. | | | The technique might be used to treat someone with juvenile onset diabetes, a condition characterised by the body's immune system reacting against the insulin that the body produces. | | | The patient would then become tolerant to insulin, and no immune response would be provoked. |
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| | Meisha's Hope; A guide to canine autoimmune hemolytic anemia |
| | Dr. Dodds also feels that the multivalent modified-live vaccines overstimulate the immune system. | | | Many theories exist, but the ultimate answer is "We don’t know." Dr. Jean Dodds, a veterinarian studying immunology, states in her article, The Immune System and Disease Resistance, that there are four main causative factors of autoimmune diseases. | | | There may be evidence to support this theory because the Merck Veterinary Manual states: " recently, the most typical cases of AIHA in dogs have been marked by a nonregenerative anemia. |
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| | Biospace.com |
| | These antigens are believed to play important roles in regulating the immune system. | | | The discovery could lead to the future development of new treatments for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease. | | | A mechanism that could result in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or diabetes has been identified by researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center. |
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http://www.biospace.com/news_rxtarget.cfm?RXTargetID=29&SR=91
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| | Race Mixing and Auto Immune Diseases - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Apparently, that level of contact for that amount of time can 'fool' the immune system into believing one's spouse's tissues are one's own. | | | As I understand it, the immune system is not programmed to ignore your own tissues: rather, it learns to: | | | When the immune system mistakes self tissues for nonself and mounts an inappropriate attack, the result is an autoimmune disease. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=102705
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| | Stem Cell, Auto Immune & Other Research - Bristol Diabetes |
| | There probable should be a health warning on this page as very many of the research projects come to nothing or are not practical. | | | The 7th June 2004 article is on T cells which block the immune system response in mice. | | | Research of this type could reduce the number of people who develop Type I diabetes. |
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| | Health Leader - Archive - Auto Immune Disease |
| | Certified Nurse Practitioners/ Physicians offer full range of healthcare. | | | Health Leader - Archive - Auto Immune Disease |
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http://www.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/AUTOIMMUNEDISEASES
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| | Social Security Online - Program Development & Research |
| | If you have questions about the Ongoing Medical Benefits--HIV/Auto Immune Deficiency Demonstration, you can write to: | | | Such efforts will hopefully result in increased self-sufficiency for disability beneficiaries as well as trust-fund savings for SSA. | | | Click here for a printer-friendly version of this page. |
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http://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/hivdemo.htm
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| | Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia |
| | Other immunosuppressive therapies such as cyclosporine administration and a host of other experimental treatments are or have been used by various clinicians. | | | IMHA refers to all anemias that occur when the immune system inadvertently destroys its own blood cells secondary to an immune attack directed against an underlying condition such as cancer, endocarditis, heartworm or by unidentifiable causes as in AIHA. | | | AIHA is better thought of as a disease that is controlled rather than cured. |
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| | Auto-Immune Diseases |
| | Researchers believe that changes in the skin may be caused by an autoimmune reaction of the immune system, skin injury, or an inherited factor. | | | It is a disorder of the immune system, which normally functions to protect the body against invading infections and cancers, and toxins. | | | In Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder, as in other autoimmune diseases parts of the complex immune system is over-active and produces increased amounts of abnormal antibodies that attack the patient's own organs. |
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http://users.bigpond.net.au/lupustas/auto_immune.html
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| | KickAS.org-Ankylosing Spondylitis as an Auto-immune Disease |
| | HLA-B27 and the immune response to enterobacterial antigens in ankylosing spondylitis. | | | Ebringer A. Ankylosing spondylitis is caused by Klebsiella: Evidence from immunologic, microbiologic, and serologic studies. | | | The world-wide consistency in the finding of increased Klebsiella antibodies in AS patients strongly support the hypothesis that exposure to this microbe occur in these patients. |
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