Assertion: autoimmune disease's system | /r/CapableOf | mistake tissue
Facets:
value: for foreign invaders
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in autoimmune diseases
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Autoimmune diseases result from the body's immune system mistaking the tissues its own body for foreign invaders, and attacking them...” ...
text: Problems arise, however, if a foreign substance looks too much like its “self,” like its own tissues, and is ignored — or if the immune system misreads its tissues and takes them as foreign invaders.
text: In autoimmune diseases, the immune system, which ordinarily defends the body against outside infection, mistakes the body’s own cells, tissues and organs as foreign—and attacks them accordingly.
text: An autoimmune disease is when the immune system mistakes healthy cells and tissues for foreign invaders and begins attacking itself.