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AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASES



Autoimmune diseases are disorders in
which the body's immune system reacts
against some of its own tissue and
produces antibodies to attack itself.


Health Scout
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/487/main.html



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AUTOIMMUNITY



Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism
to recognize its own constituent parts
(down to the sub-molecular levels) as "self",
which results in an immune response against
its own cells and tissues. Any disease that
results from such an aberrant immune response
is termed an autoimmune disease.

Prominent examples include:

diabetes mellitus
type 1 (IDDM),

systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE),

Sjögren's syndrome,

Hashimoto's thyroiditis,

Graves' disease,

rheumatoid arthritis (RA).



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AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASE
CLASSIFICATION



Autoimmune diseases can
be broadly divided into:

systemic
and
organ-specific

or

localised autoimmune disorders,

depending on the principal
clinico-pathologic features
of each disease.


Systemic syndromes include:

SLE,

Sjögren's syndrome,

Scleroderma,

Rheumatoid Arthritis,

polymyositis.


Local syndromes may be:

endocrinologic
(DM Type 1,

Hashimoto's thyroiditis,

Addison's disease,

dermatologic
(pemphigus vulgaris),

haematologic
(autoimmune haemolytic anaemia),

neural (multiple sclerosis)

or can involve virtually
any circumscribed mass of
body tissue.


WIKIPEDIA
THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_diseases



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AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASE
LINKS


AARDA American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
http://www.aarda.org/

American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/

Center Watch
http://www.centerwatch.com/

Clinical Trials Site of the National Institutes of Health
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/

Health Central
http://www.healthcentral.com/

Health Line
http://www.healthline.com/

Health Scout
http://www.healthscout.com/

Internatinoal Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
http://www.cidpusa.org/

Immune Tolerance Network
http://www.immunetolerance.org/

Mayo Clinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

National Health Council
http://www.Nhcouncil.org/

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
http://www.niams.nih.gov/

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov/

National Womens Health Information Center (NWHIC)
http://www.4woman.gov/

Society for Women Health Research (SWHR)
http://www.womenshealthresearch.org/

The Well Spouse Foundation
http://www.wellspouse.org/

United States National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Vestibular Disorders Association
http://www.vestibular.org/

Web MD
http://www.webmd.com/

Wrong Diagnosis.com
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/



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