Autoimmune Disease
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...thyroiditis, an inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland, antibodies...cells. Myasthenia gravis, a disease characterized by weakened muscles, is thought to have an autoimmune origin. In systemic lupus...Because lupus and certain diseases of probable autoimmune origin, e.g., scleroderma...