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Autoimmune Disease

Pathophysiology

There's a breakdown of mechanisms that maintain Self-tolerance, therefore leading to the activation of Self-reactive B/T cells and the generation of auto-antibodies and/or cell-mediated responses to self-antigens = Autoimmunity.

“Different locations of the body that are affected by autoimmune diseases.” © Katie Glover, Deepakkumar Mishra, and Thakur Raghu Raj Singh CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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