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| | Autoimmunity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Now, it is accepted that autoimmune responses are vital to the development and functioning of vertebrate immune system, and central to the development of immunological tolerance to self-antigens. | | | 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. | | | The latter concept has been somewhat prematurely termed natural autoimmunity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_diseases
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| | Autoimmune Diseases |
| | Polymyositis--A rare autoimmune disease characterized by inflamed and tender muscles throughout the body, particularly those of the shoulder and hip girdles. | | | There are many different autoimmune diseases, and they can each affect the body in different ways. | | | Ultimately, medical science is striving to design therapies that prevent autoimmune diseases. |
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| | Autoimmune Hepatitis |
| | This procedure is an effective form of therapy for patients with decompensated cirrhosis caused by autoimmune hepatitis. | | | HLA DR3-positive patients are more likely than other patients to have aggressive disease, which is less responsive to medical therapy; these patients are younger than other patients at the time of their initial presentation. | | | This condition is associated with the complement allele C4AQO and with the HLA haplotypes B8, B14, DR3, DR4, and Dw3. |
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http://www.janis7hepc.com/autoimmune_hepatitis.htm
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| | Autoimmune Hepatitis |
| | Advances in surgical techniques and the use of new drugs to suppress rejection have dramatically improved the success rate of transplantation. | | | It is most effective when begun at an early stage of the disease. | | | This information allows the physician to tailor the treatment to each individual patient. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Autoimmune hepatitis |
| | In this article, Dr Luxon provides a roadmap through the maze of antibodies that are involved in autoimmune hepatitis and discusses current treatment options and evaluation of response to medical therapy. | | | The scoring system was originally designed to aid in the selection of homogeneous groups of patients for research purposes. | | | None of these antigens are associated with a specific pattern on immunofluorescence. |
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| | Autoimmune Disorders AHealthyMe.com |
| | Though the mechanisms involved in how these diseases affect the body are known, it is still unclear why the body turns on itself. | | | "Splenic Irradiation Is an Option for Patients with Autoimmune Disorders and Those with HIV." AIDS Weekly. | | | The reasons why immune systems become dysfunctional in this way is not well understood. |
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http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/autoimmune
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| | Autoimmune Thyroid Disease: Hashimoto's and Grave's by International Scleroderma Network |
| | Although antithyroid drugs are considered the first choice for treatment in Europe, some authors advocate radioiodine as the treatment of choice. | | | The aim of this study was to assess peripheral and central parts of the hearing organ in children with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. | | | It may relate to women's overall higher incidence of autoimmune conditions. |
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| | Autoimmune - Overactive Immune System |
| | This is not surprising since the immune system itself is a new frontier of study. | | | Like any other part of the body, defects can arise in the immune system. | | | Reference: Friendly Fire: Explaining Autoimmune Disease by Dr. David Isenberg and Dr. John Morrow; At War Within by Dr. William R. Clark; Dr. Paul Cheney; |
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http://www.immunesystemetc.com/autoimmune.html
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| | Autoimmune Diseases |
| | But you should only see this type of doctor along with your regular autoimmune disease doctor, not in place of him or her. | | | This makes it hard for doctors to find out if you really have one of these diseases, and which one it might be. | | | Juggling your health care needs among different doctors and other types of health care providers can be hard. |
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http://www.4woman.org/faq/autoimmune.htm
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| | Emerging Infectious Diseases: Women and autoimmune diseases |
| | Thus, on a proportional basis, developing autoimmune disease is the relatively uncommon consequence of a common autoimmune response. | | | During mechanical injury, self-antigens and cytokines are released without consistently stimulating pathogen-specific responses. | | | Autoimmune diseases tend to cluster in families and in individuals (a person with one autoimmune disease is more likely to get another), which indicates that common mechanisms are involved in disease susceptibility. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GVK/is_11_10/ai_n7577426
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Autoimmune disorders |
| | Measures to assist mobility or other functions may be needed for disorders that affect the bones, joints, or muscles. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top | | | 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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| | A Novel Mutation of the Autoimmune Regulator Gene in an Italian Kindred with Autoimmune ... |
| | Betterle C, Greggio NA, Volpato M 1998 Clinical review 93: autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1. | | | in our family, whereas a low penetrance of the full autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal | | | 1998 A common mutation in Sardinian autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy patients. |
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| | AutoImmuneForum :: Index |
| | It is a place to share experiences and information with each other. | | | This forum is for folks who have an autoimmune disease and for their loved ones. | | | This forum is for discussions about autoimmune diseases in general. |
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http://www.autoimmuneforum.org
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| | Autoimmune Hepatitis |
| | Although the disease is chronic, many patients with autoimmune hepatitis present acutely ill with jaundice, fever and sometimes symptoms of severe hepatic dysfunction, a picture that resembles acute hepatitis. | | | Although the term "lupoid" hepatitis was originally used to describe this disease, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus do not have an increased incidence of autoimmune hepatitis and the two diseases are distint entities. | | | Autoimmune hepatitis should be suspected in any young patient with hepatitis, especially those without risk factors for alcoholic, drug, metabolic or viral etiologies. |
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http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gi/autoimmune.html
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| | Autoimmune disease definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Autoimmune disease: An illness that occurs when the body tissues are attacked by its own immune system. | | | Common Misspellings: autoimmune diease, autoimmune desease, autoemmune disease, autoemmune diease, autoemmune desease, autoimune disease, autoimune diease, autoimune desease, autoinmune disease, autoinmune diease, autoinmune desease | | | Autoimmune disease definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
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| | Autoimmune Disease The Facts |
| | Autoimmune diseases also seem to have a genetic component, but, mysteriously, they can cluster in families as different illnesses. | | | The term "autoimmune disease" refers to a varied group of more than 80 serious, chronic illnesses that involve almost every human organ system. | | | Autoimmune diseases remain among the most poorly understood and poorly recognized of any category of illnesses. |
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| | children with DIABETES - Diabetes Dictionary: A |
| | A disorder in which two or more autoimmune conditions are found. | | | Disorder of the body's immune system in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys body tissue that it believes to be foreign. | | | 50% show Type 1 autoimmune diabetes and another associated condition, which may include Addison's disease, the celiac syndrome, vitiligo, pernicious anemia, myasthenia gravis, Graves' disease, and others. |
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http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dictionary/a.htm
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| | Life With an Autoimmune Disease |
| | Your first symptoms of an autoimmune disease may be general, such as fatigue, low-grade fever, and difficulty concentrating, making autoimmune diseases difficult to diagnose at first. | | | If you have general, lingering symptoms, you may be suffering from an autoimmune disease -- which means your immune system is attacking healthy tissue. | | | You also may feel depressed and consult a doctor for that. |
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| | Welcome to AutoImmune Inc. |
| | AutoImmune Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of orally administered products to treat autoimmune and other cell-mediated inflammatory diseases. | | | Each of these products is based on a common biological mechanism known as oral tolerance, which provides tissue specific immunosuppression to control disease without toxicity or significant side effects. |
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http://www.autoimmuneinc.com
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| | Autoimmune |
| | Autoimmune profiles based on xMAP technology employ microsphere sets that have been conjugated with an autoimmune antigen. | | | Luminex® xMAP® technology is well-suited to this application, as it allows for internal controls to be built into each assay. | | | Diagnosis of autoimmune diseases depends upon identifying and discriminating between multiple markers that define the proper disease classification. |
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http://www.luminexcorp.com/01_xMAPTechnology/02_Applications/Autoimmune.html
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