Autoimmune disease
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Autoimmune diseases arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in autoimmune thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney). The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response. (For a detailed explanation of pathogenesis see Autoimmunity.)
Criteria
For a disease to be regarded as an autoimmune disease, it needs to answer to Witebsky's postulates (first formulated by Ernst Witebsky and colleagues in 1957 and modified in 1994):[1][2]
- Direct evidence from transfer of pathogenic antibody or pathogenic T cells
- Indirect evidence based on reproduction of the autoimmune disease in experimental animals
- Circumstantial evidence from clinical clues
Classification
It is possible to classify autoimmune diseases by corresponding type of hypersensitivity: type II, type III, or type IV. (No type of autoimmune disease mimics type I hypersensitivity.)[3]
There is continuing debate about when a disease should be considered autoimmune, leading to different criteria such as Witebsky's postulates.
Development of therapies
In both autoimmune and inflammatory diseases the condition arises through aberrant reactions of the human adaptive or innate immune systems. In autoimmunity, the patient’s immune system is activated against the body's own proteins. In inflammatory diseases, it is the overreaction of the immune system, and its subsequent downstream signaling (TNF, IFN, etc.), which causes problems. Mitigation of inflammation by activation of anti-inflammatory genes and the suppression of inflammatory genes in immune cells is a promising way of novel therapies.[82][83][84]
A substantial minority of the population suffers from these diseases, which are often chronic, debilitating, and life-threatening. There are more than eighty illnesses caused by autoimmunity.[85] It has been estimated that autoimmune diseases are among the ten leading causes of death among women in all age groups up to 65 years.[86]
See also
Further reading
- Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Nelson Fausto, Jon Aster, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Elsevier, 8th edition, 2010, 1464 pp., ISBN 978-1-4160-3121-5
- Handbook of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, edited by Ronald Asherson, Elsevier, in 10 Volumes [1] :
- Ronald Asherson, Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, The Heart in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 1, 2004, ISBN 978-0-444-51398-4, ISBN 0-444-51398-1
- Ronald Asherson, Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 2, 2005, ISBN 978-0-444-51652-7, ISBN 0-444-51652-2
- Ronald Asherson, Doruk Erkan, Steven Levine, The Neurologic Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 3, 2005, ISBN 978-0-444-51651-0, ISBN 0-444-51651-4
- Michael Lockshin, Ware Branch (eds), Reproductive and Hormonal Aspects of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 4, 2006, ISBN 978-0-444-51801-9, ISBN 0-444-51801-0
- Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, Ronald Asherson, Andrea Doria, Annegret Kuhn, Giampietro Girolomoni (eds), The Skin in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume Volume 5, 2006, ISBN 978-0-444-52158-3, ISBN 0-444-52158-5
- Rolando Cimaz, Ronald Asherson, Thomas Lehman (eds), Pediatrics in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 6, 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-52971-8, ISBN 0-444-52971-3
- Justin Mason, Ronald Asherson, Charles Pusey (eds), The Kidney in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 7, 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-52972-5, ISBN 0-444-52972-1
- Ronald Asherson, Manel Ramos-Casals, Joan Rodes, Josep Font, Digestive Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 8, 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-53168-1, ISBN 0-444-53168-8
- Ronald Asherson, Sara Walker, Luis Jara, Endocrine Manifestations of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 9, 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-53172-8, ISBN 0-444-53172-6
- R. Cervera, Ronald Asherson, Munther Khamashta, Joan Carles Reverter (eds), Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 10, 2009, ISBN 978-0-444-53169-8, ISBN 0-444-53169-6
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