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Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts (down to the sub-molecular levels) as "Self", which results in an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease, the prominent examples being Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren's syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The illusory misconception that an individual's immune system is totally incapable of ...
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Autoimmune Diseases Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases http://www.cancer.gov/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases http://www.niams.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery
- American Osteopathic College of Dermatology
- Muscular Dystrophy Association http://www.mdausa.org/
- Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org/
- American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
- International Pemphigus Foundation
- National Alopecia Areata Foundation http://www.naaf.org/
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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