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You are referring to autoimmune disease - there are many depending on what systems in the body are effected.
Graves disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis are forms of autoimmune thyroid disease -
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints -
Lupus is a condition characterized by chronic inflammation of body tissues, also autoimmune -
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue, it causes scar tissue to form where there is no injury -
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∙ 14y agoLupus erythematosus is the disease in which the body attacks itself (an autoimmune disease)
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∙ 12y agoSuch diseases are called autoimmune diseases. Examples are systemic lupus erythematous, multiple sclerosis, guillian barre syndrome and steven Johnson's syndrome.
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∙ 9y agoThe term for an attack by the immune system on the body's own tissues is autoimmune disease.
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∙ 14y agoan automimmune disorder or disease.
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∙ 13y agoAutoimmune Disease
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∙ 14y agoLupus
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Disease in which body attacks its own cells?
macrophage
What disease is when body attacks own cells?
An auto-immune response.
Is there an autoimmune cancer?
No. In an autoimmune disease, the body attacks his own cells which become for unkonwn reason recognized as a foreign body (antigen). While in cancer, certain body cells divide without control. So autoimmune and cancer indicate unrelated terms.
When the body responds to its own cells as foreign antigens this results in?
Autoimmune Disease
What are autoimmune?
An autoimmune disease is caused by the immune system attacking you instead of threats and diseases coming from outside you. In autoimmune diseases, the body makes a mistake and attacks its own tissues.a condition that causes the body's own immune system to wrongly identify cells as foreign and attack them.
What is the disease where the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth called?
cancer
What is inflammatory arthritis?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a good example of this it is an Autoimmune disease. A disease where the body's own immune system attacks joints and other tissue and organs.
What is your body fighting in disease?
An infection caused by a virus or a bacteria or in the case of cancer, cells of your own body that have gone rogue.
What is autoimmune disease destroys cells in the body that are?
There are many autoimmune diseases which all does the same thing: destroying their own body.
In an autoimmune disease the immune response is directed toward?
self-substances In an autoimmune disease, the immune system becomes overactive and directs itself toward the body's own tissues and systems. Instead of attacking a specific disease, or foreign invader to the body, the immune system attacks the body that it should be protecting.
How does a viruses cause disease?
Put simply it infects your cells with its own form of DNA that cause you body to make more and thenthey infect more cells sorta
What is the difference between immune system and auto immune system?
Well, lets start with the basics, your immune system is what keeps you from getting colds and flu's easily. so your auto-immune system (protection) automatically defends your body against these types of attacks, where anti-immune are the things trying to attack your immune system (Virus).
