Assertion: autoimmune disease | /r/CapableOf | attack organ
Facets:
value: in the body
type: LOCATION
value: such as in type 1 diabetes
type: OTHER
value: pretty much
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Autoimmune disease may attack an organ that prevents production of certain hormones.
text: Autoimmune diseases can thus affect a wide variety of bodily tissues and processes, such as the skin, liver, kidneys, or other organs, or the chemical reactions essential to metabolism.
text: Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) is a prototype of an autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs.
text: By examining this list you can see that autoimmune diseases can affect pretty much any organ or tissue in the body, so they cast a very broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and patient phenotypes .
text: Less commonly, autoimmune disorders that affect other organs and tissues occur in people with ALPS.
text: If it affects only one organ or type of tissue, such as in type 1 diabetes, it is called a localized autoimmune disease.
text: While some autoimmune diseases attack a specific part of the body, many autoimmune diseases can attack several organs in the body.
text: Autoimmune disorders affecting multiple organs can lead to highly variable signs and symptoms that can change in severity over time.
text: The autoimmune disease may affect one or more organs or may be present in the dog's blood, affecting the entire system.
text: They can attack any one or multiple organs.
text: Autoimmune diseases are chronic illnesses in which a host’s immune system fails to distinguish between self and foreign cells, and as a result attacks the body’s tissues and organs.
text: Symptoms may be vague, and autoimmune diseases can present themselves in so many different ways, affecting the thyroid, the brain, the skin, or other organs.
text: Autoimmune diseases may be systemic, meaning that they affect multiple organs, or they may be organ specific, targeting one particular organ.