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Blood Sugar; Diabetes Mellitus; Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus; Type II Diabetes |
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Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism--the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body. After digestion, glucose passes into the bloodstream, where it is used by cells for growth and energy. For glucose to get into cells, insulin must be present. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, a large gland behind the stomach. When we eat, the pancr... 
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When your body is attacked--perhaps by a virus or germs on a nail you stepped on--your immune system defends you. It sees and kills the germs that might hurt you. But when the system doesn't work right, this process can cause harm. Immune cells can mistake your body's own cells as invaders and attack them. This "friendly fire" can affect almost any part of the body. It can sometimes affect many parts of the body at once. This is called autoimmunity (meaning self-immunity).
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Diabetes as related to Autoimmune Diseases
- MedlinePlus: Autoimmune Diseases
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- Autoimmune diseases - WrongDiagnosis.com
Possibly Autoimmune Diseases; Type 1 diabetes; rheumatoid arthritis; Autoimmune thyroid diseases; Graves Disease; Hashimoto's Thyroiditis; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Multiple Sclerosis; Crohn's disease; Psoriasis ...
- Immunologic Diseases -- Autoimmune Diseases
Some examples are Wegener's granulomatosis, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Autoimmune diseases can ...
- Autoimmune Disease Publications at the National Institute of Allergy ...
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- Autoimmune Diseases: Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease that prevents the the pancreas from producing insulin. ... In Loving Memory: Beryl Blatt: Maxine Gail Mackler: Janet Philips
- Diabetes, Arthritis, and other Autoimmune Diseases
O ur lab is interested in the generation of auto-aggressive or "self-reactive" T cells. Specifically, we study how these T cells cause autoimmune diseases such as type 1 (juvenile) diabetes. T cells ...
- Attacking Autoimmune Diseases?
... is the target - the thyroid, in the case of Graves' disease, the pancreas in the case of juvenile diabetes, and multiple organs in lupus. You can get information on 60 specific autoimmune diseases ...
- Category:Autoimmune diseases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pages in category "Autoimmune diseases" There are 67 pages in this section of this category. ... Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Latent autoimmune diabetes; Lesion patterns in multiple sclerosis; Lupus ...
- Autoimmunity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease . Prominent examples include diabetes ... Mackey, eds, The Autoimmune Diseases , 4th edition, Academic Press, 2006 [ edit ] ...
- Diseases: Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center
25 percent of patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis may develop polyglandular syndromes (such as pernicious anemia, diabetes, or adrenal insufficiency) or other autoimmune diseases (such as Sjogren ...
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