Sentences with phrase «into autoantibodies»

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However, sometimes autoantibodies, essentially posing as TSH, attach to the receptor and trick the thyroid into flooding the body with more hormones than are needed.

Funded to focus on PANS by two wealthy parents whose child was diagnosed with the disease, Agalliu began searching in 2012 for controls to the trap door that autoantibodies use to sneak into the brain.

Once they break into the brain, the autoantibodies attack the basal ganglia, causing the afflicted to jerk and writhe in a manner resembling the worst cases of the tic syndrome Tourette's.

Autoimmune diseases are when the body's immune system malfunctions and goes into overdrive, falsely recognizing some of its own tissue as foreign (in this scenario, thyroid gland tissue); this leads to the formation of autoantibodies (a.k.a. antibodies against the body's own tissue).

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