Fly strike, with its red, crusty, bleeding lesions on the tips of a dog's ears can look just like mange, scratching from allergies, vasculitis — swollen, inflamed blood vessels — or erythematosis, an autoimmune disorder where the animal's
immune system attacks normal, healthy tissue.
Autoimmunity is a process where the body's
immune system attacks normal healthy tissue.
Not exact matches
Now, thanks to the new mouse model, it will be possible to study how renal tumors are able to develop in an environment with a
normal immune system, and how cancer cells manage to evade the
immune system's
attacks.
Normal microorganisms in the intestines appear to play a pivotal role in how the HIV virus foils a successful
attack from the body's
immune system, according to new research from Duke Medicine.
They can also induce responses against
normal tissue antigens, leading the
immune system to
attack normal tissues and cause toxicity in a subset of patients.
Another way to say this is that one would like to figure out whether it is the beta cells screwing up and attracting the
immune system or does the
immune system screw up and
attack perfectly
normal beta cells?
Under
normal conditions, so - called checkpoint inhibitor molecules rein in the
immune system to ensure that it does not
attack the body's own cells, tissues and organs.
Hypothyroidism — an underproduction of hormones by the thyroid gland in the neck — is caused by an abnormal
immune system response that mistakenly
attacks normal body tissue.
«When inflammation persists beyond its intended borders and purpose, however, the
immune system mistakenly
attacks normal cells, and the process that ordinarily heals becomes destructive.
[Phosphate] destroys the lipid layer of the skin; [fragrances and dyes] activate the T cell arm of the
immune system, which can mistakenly
attack normal cells.»
When a genetically susceptible person eats a certain type of wheat protein (gliadin), the body's
immune system starts
attacking normal tissue.
This is a critical factor in the
immune system knowing not to
attack the
normal and healthy bacteria on the skin.
In autoimmune disorders, your
immune system makes antibodies that mistakenly
attack normal tissue.
These could be from «
normal» food, however, in a undigested / not - completely broken down form, your body thinks they are foreign invaders and
attacks these molecules mounting an
immune system response against them.
Triggers that affect the
immune system's response to certain substances may cause the body to react slower than
normal, or over-react where the body
attacks and damages its own tissues (autoimmune disease).
For some, this means that the
immune system will
attack the body during
normal functioning, damaging its own tissues and causing destruction within the body that is quite painful.
The
immune system attacks these undigested foreign particles creating a deluge of activity that derails it from it's
normal job of dealing with pollen.
The cat's
immune system then makes antibodies to
attack the virus, just as it would do if the virus was active and in its
normal form.