of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body
an immune reaction against self antigens Benign - neoplasms that lack the ability to metastasize; typically have the suffix -oma attached to the cell of origin e g adenoma (benign epithelial neoplasm arising from glandular tissue such as colonic tissue) or chondroma (benign cartilaginous neoplasm)
Any disease caused by an immune response (see immunity) against antigens in the tissues of one's own body. The immune system has two known ways to prevent such a response: destruction of lymphocytes in the thymus before they leave to attack one's own tissues and loss of ability to react to their target antigens by any such cells that do leave the thymus. Autoimmune diseases arise when these mechanisms fail and lymphocytes destroy host tissues; examples include type 1 diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematosus, pernicious anemia, and rheumatoid arthritis. Treatment may replace the function of the affected tissue (e.g., insulin therapy for diabetes) or suppress the immune system (see immunosuppression). Allergy is another type of autoimmune reaction
any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues
in HIV vaccination, a theoretical adverse effect in which the vaccine causes immune responses that are inappropriately directed at a persons own tissues
complex of physiological mechanisms based on self-recognition and self-addressed immune response Serves for the purposes of complementary autoregulation
in medicine, condition where the body's immune responses are mobilized not against "foreign" matter, such as invading germs, but against the body itself Diseases considered to be of autoimmune origin include myasthenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus erythematosus