This disorder, an autoimmune disease in 7 million Americans, causes a painful, scaly rash.
Note that autoimmune disease is also very easy to observe in cats and dogs.
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Patients are at higher risk for Type 1 diabetes, mellitus, collagen vascular diseases, autoimmune thyroid disease.
It would be the first new drug for the autoimmune disease in 50 years.
But Smith figured excess TNF might cause autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.
Software engineer Colin Mackay was 32 when a mysterious autoimmune disease destroyed his kidneys in 2001.
Others say that silicone binds to proteins, and that these complexes cause an autoimmune response.
This autoimmune disease, in which the patient's own immune system attacks the joints, afflicts 2 million people.
But the condition also resembles an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
Their interest gradually turned to childhood diabetes as evidence increased that it was an autoimmune disease as well.
Side effects of the drugs can include inflammation of the colon, thyroid or pancreas, or other autoimmune problems.
To properly diagnose Type 1, doctors need to test for antibodies that indicate the presence of the autoimmune disorder.
It specialises in creating kits for food intolerance, autoimmune disease and infectious disease.
Some people also think Fibromyalgia may turn out to be an autoimmune disease.
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Its figures were bolstered by a 15% rise in food intolerance income, while allergy and autoimmune revenues fell by 11%.
Studies have shown that sauna therapy is a valuable clinical tool for treating autoimmune, toxicant-induced and other chronic health problems.
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Lupus is a serious, potentially fatal, autoimmune disease that attacks healthy tissues.
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Dr Fetissov's work also adds weight to the idea that two other neurological diseases, schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome, have an autoimmune component.
Valicenti-McDermott M, et al. Frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorders and association with family history of autoimmune disease.
It has also improved the lot of those afflicted with multiple myeloma, another cancer, and a variety of autoimmune disorders including lupus.
In humans narcolepsy is an autoimmune disorder that destroys the orexin neurons.
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Patients with either of two genes associated with autoimmune disorders, HLA-DR2 and HLA-DR4, have gone five years without any progression of the disease.
But during an illness, or when the immune system goes haywire in autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, the attacking T cells take over.
Those who suffer from celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder, cannot absorb the gluten found in these grains, resulting in damage to the intestines.
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Type 1 diabetes results from a rheumatoid-like autoimmune reaction in which one's own body attacks and destroys the beta cells of the pancreas.
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Serena was encouraged to see her older sister reach the semifinals after her struggles the past 18 months in dealing with an autoimmune disease.
Dynavax Technologies (DVAX) is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops products to prevent and treat infectious diseases, asthma and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
In one case, GSK created a new biotech company to attack novel immune system science that could lead to drugs for autoimmune disease.
It tried to sell data from its gene storehouse and then create a production line of wonder drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disorders.
The immune system's interaction with the eyes can be telling, too, yielding information about autoimmune diseases or infections in the rest of the body.
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