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An auto-immune response.
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What is the disease where the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth called?
cancer
What are antigen differentiating cells?
they differentiate the body's own cell to enemy
Do body cells kill other body cells?
Yes, one example is autoimmune reactions in which our bodies can't determine friend from foe and start to attack our own cells by accident.
Is it true that cells can regulate what they need or don't need to maintain their own health?
Human cells do have the ability to regulate what they need or don't need to maintain their own health. Cells are found all throughout the body.
How many cells are there in our boady?
There are approximately 37.2 trillion cells in the human body. These cells make up different types of tissues and organs, each with their own specialized functions.
Disease in which body attacks its own cells?
macrophage
What disease of the body attacks its own cells?
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 -
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).
