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Descriptor English: Autoimmunity
Descriptor Spanish: Autoinmunidad
Descriptor autoinmunidad
Entry term(s) respuesta autoinmune
respuesta autoinmunitaria
Scope note: Proceso por el que el sistema inmunitario reacciona frente a los tejidos del propio individuo. La autoinmunidad puede producirse o estar causada por ENFERMEDADES AUTOINMUNITARIAS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Autoimunidade
Descriptor French: Auto-immunité
Entry term(s): Autoimmune Response
Autoimmune Responses
Autoimmunities
Tree number(s): G12.450.192
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015551
Scope note: Process whereby the immune system reacts against the body's own tissues. Autoimmunity may produce or be caused by AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Autoantibodies (1966-1989)
Autoimmune Diseases (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
Related: Autoantibodies MeSH
Autoimmune Diseases MeSH
DeCS ID: 24529
Unique ID: D015551
NLM Classification: QW 545
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/02
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Autoimmunity - Preferred
Concept UI M0023919
Scope note Process whereby the immune system reacts against the body's own tissues. Autoimmunity may produce or be caused by AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.
Preferred term Autoimmunity
Entry term(s) Autoimmunities
Autoimmune Response - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0023918
Preferred term Autoimmune Response
Entry term(s) Autoimmune Responses



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