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- Vitiligo Symptoms, Treatment & Causes | NIAMSNormally, the immune system works throughout your body to fight off and defend your body from viruses, bacteria, and infection. In people with autoimmune diseases, the immune cells attack the body’s own healthy tissues by mistake. People with vitiligo may be more likely to develop other autoimmune disorders as well.
- What is Pemphigus? Symptoms & Causes | NIAMSPemphigus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks cells in the top layer of the skin (epidermis) and the mucous membranes. People with the disease produce antibodies against desmogleins, proteins that bind skin cells to one another, and less commonly other proteins in the skin.
- How your gut bacteria affects your immune systemThe immune system detects specific proteins from the bacteria, and this detection seems to increase the immune system’s response to the flu vaccine. Then your body has an easier time mounting an immune response if you are exposed to the real flu virus. Gut bacteria aren’t the only thing influencing your immune system
- Rheumatoid Arthritis | Health Topics | NIAMSRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease that mostly affects joints. RA occurs when the immune system, which normally helps protect the body from infection and disease, attacks its own tissues. The disease causes pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of function in joints.
- Autoimmune Diseases | NIAMSYour immune system is the network of cells and tissues in your body that work together to defend you from viruses, bacteria, and infection. It tries to identify and destroy the invaders that might hurt you. In autoimmune diseases, proteins known as autoantibodies target the body’s own healthy tissues by mistake, signaling the body to attack them.
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