Autoimmune disorders : adjuvants and other risk factors in pathogenesis /
"Autoimmune disease occurs when an immune response attacks our own tissues. Like all adaptive immune responses, it is focused on specific antigens by T-cell receptors and B-cell receptors. In contrast to infection, the antigens that these cells recognise are processed from proteins within the t...
| Uniform Title: | Autoimmune disorders (Watad) |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley,
2024.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Autoimmune disease occurs when an immune response attacks our own tissues. Like all adaptive immune responses, it is focused on specific antigens by T-cell receptors and B-cell receptors. In contrast to infection, the antigens that these cells recognise are processed from proteins within the target organ and this drives a chronic inflammatory process that disrupts the normal function of the tissue. In human diseases the trigger for this process cannot usually be determined. There is evidence that autoimmunity can follow infection, but that more than one infection can initiate disease. Other environmental factors are also relevant but are not well defined"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119858430 1119858437 9781119858447 1119858445 9781119858423 1119858429 |