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What is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the beta cells of the pancreas?
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What disease is when body attacks own cells?
An auto-immune response.
What type of immune disorder is SLE?
The Immune Disorder SLE is and autoimmune disorder.
What is an autoimmune disorder resulting in whitish areas of skin Hair growing in an affected area may also turn white?
The purpose of immune system is defend the body from microbes. Autoimmune disorder is a condition in which the immune system attacks the body's own cells.
Can hypothyroidism cause SlE?
No lupus is a separate autoimmune disorder. When a patient has an autoimmune disease, the immune system cannot tell the difference between harmful substances and healthy ones. The result is an overactive immune response that attacks otherwise healthy cells and tissue. This leads to chronic inflammation. Patients who have one autoimmune disorder may also have others, like Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.
What is the autoimmune disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks thyroid tissue?
The name of the disorder is Hashimoto disease. Its know too as chronic thyroiditis. On a personal note an endocrinologist diagnosed me it some years go.
What is Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura?
It is a disorder in which the immune system targets and destroys blood platelets
What is an autoimmune disorder that affects the blood vessels?
Vasculitis is thought to be an autoimmune disease, which means the body comes under attack by its own immune system. In vasculitis, the immune system attacks blood vessels. For example, Behcet's Disease is an autoinflammatory disease resulting in damage to blood vessels throughout the body, particularly veins.
Does aids stand for autoImmunodeficiency Syndrome?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency. It is caused by a virus. It is not autoimmune. They are they exact opposite. In autoimmunity, the immune system is over active and mistakenly attacks the healthy self. In AIDS the immune system is extremely weakened and attacks next to nothing.
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 immune system disorders attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas?
Type 1 diabetes
When a person is in crisis his body's autoimmune system is activated true or false?
There is no such thing as an "autoimmune system". There is only an immune system.Autoimmune diseases are caused when that immune system becomes "confused" and attacks parts of the body instead of disease causing agents.So your answer is false as there is no "autoimmune system" to activate.
What type of disease is lupus?
Lupus is an autoimmune disorder, a disease in which the body's immune system turns against the body itself
