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What produces an autoimmune response?
Your immune system attacking your own body.
How does the immune response work?
Lymphocytes
Is multiple sclerosis bacterial or viral?
It is neither bacterial nor viral. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. That means that your body's immune system is attacking parts of your body. In the case of multiple sclerosis the immune system is attacking the protective cover around the nerve cells.
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.
What does the immune system do for the body?
the immune system protects the body from invading pathogyns
What body systems protects the body against foreign substances?
The name of the system is lymphatic system.
If moms getting older Her immune systems attacking her body if too tired stressed etc and suddenly she has restless legs after long trip and flight Could it be because of her immune system?
yes
What is the body's defense system?
It would be their immune system.
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 viral theory of Sjogren's syndrome?
The viral theory suggests that the immune system is activated in response to a viral invader, but then fails to turn itself off. Some other immune malfunction then causes the overly active immune system to begin attacking the body's own tissues.
What system in the body does the virus effect?
Viruses, most probably, go for the immune system, an example being HIV.
Which system is to prevent foreign substances from entering the body to attack foreign substances that are in the body?
The Immune System is the defense network of the body. The immune system works with specific receptors on specialized cells - detecting foreign bodies and signaling for the immune system to destroy them.
