The word 'autoimmune' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to describe a condition in which a person's immune system attacks their own healthy cells and tissues. Example: "She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder that affected her joints and caused chronic inflammation."
The English noun "concinnity" and the adjective, "concinnous" are employed to designate the unremarkable physiology of the immune system doing its maintenance functions, and "autoimmunity" should then be limited to describe and refer to autoimmune diseases, i.e., those pathological conditions of immune attack on the animal's own tissues (Tauber 2015).
Klee then became ill with scleroderma, a fatally debilitating autoimmune disease.
A vaccine could thus provoke a dangerous autoimmune reaction.Dr Ulmer also described a technique called self-amplifying messenger RNA.
However, even well-evolved systems can go wrong and, just as the immune system occasionally attacks the body it is supposed to be defending, causing a so-called autoimmune disease, so it looks as though the TNF-α fatigue response may sometimes appear at the wrong time.One example of an autoimmune disease is rheumatoid arthritis.
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It has also improved the lot of those afflicted with multiple myeloma, another cancer, and a variety of autoimmune disorders including lupus.Thalidomide works, in part, by blocking the production of tumour necrosis factor-alpha, a biochemical which promotes inflammation in the body.
He has started tests on animals to investigate whether the implants could be used to combat chronic inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis and diabetes.
The suggestion is that the virus does not actually kill human cells, but rather that the damage is done by an over-reacting immune system attacking the lining of the lungs a so-called autoimmune response.Intriguingly, this would fit in with reports in Newsday that AIDS patients in a Chinese hospital resisted infection despite their proximity to SARS patients.
Well, here is a story where the bullets are made of gold and platinum, as well.Those bullets' targets are a range of ailments known as autoimmune diseases.
In Dr Rose's view, what is often being inherited is not a genetic predisposition to a particular autoimmune disease, but rather a generalised predisposition to the whole class of them.
It is detected more often in people with autoimmune conditions, which has led to the suggestion that the maternal cells could trigger those diseases.
