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What is the name of the disorder of the autoimmune system where the good cells are being eaten by the bad cells.?
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What is the disease "autoimmune disorder"?
There are several different autoimmune disorders; but an autoimmune disorder is when white blood cells can no longer tell the difference in bacteria and good cells or tissue. This causes abnormal organ and tissue development.
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.
What is Hashimoto's hyroiditis?
The self destruction of the thyroid cells from an autoimmune disorder.
What causes discoid lupus erythematosus?
The cause of DLE is unknown. It is thought that DLE (like SLE) may be an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmune disorders are those that occur when cells of the immune system are misdirected against the body
When the body's defenses turn against its own cells the disorder is called?
an autoimmune response
What disease is when body attacks own cells?
An auto-immune response.
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 happens when red blood cells eats white blood cells?
They wouldn't if anything white would eat red which is an autoimmune disorder.
What kind of disease is the sjs?
Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune cells destroy the exocrine glands that produce saliva and tears
What body system has to do with the pancreas failing to properly produce insulin?
several things can cause this. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune disorder where the body attacks the insulin producing cells in the Islets of Langerhans, killing them, and cells that produce amylin. It can also be caused by a neurologic issue.
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 kind of disorder is diabetes type 2?
Diabetes type 2 is a metabolic disorder, caused by insulin resistance in the cells of the body, combined with insufficient insulin formation. It is quite a separate disorder than diabetes type 1, which is caused by an autoimmune reaction that destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
