In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which
increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused
by the
immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.
Fever
increases the body's set temperature (range of temperature in which body
systems can function normally) to assist the
immune system by activating
immune cells to
attack the foreign invader, such as a bacterial infection.