Assertion: autoimmune disease's system | /r/CapableOf | attack the body
Facets:
value: mistakenly
type: MANNER
value: suddenly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Why does the immune system attack the body?
text: With an autoimmune disorder, something within our body causes an abnormal reaction in our immune system, in essence, causing our immune system to fight the body itself.
text: An autoimmune disease is when a person’s own immune system mistakenly attacks their body similar to how it might attack a foreign virus invading the body.
text: In other words, where do the signals get crossed at the cellular level that causes a healthy immune system to attack the body?
text: Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system, which is primarily designed to protect the body from infections such as bacteria and viruses, by attacking and destroying them, becomes confused and and will attack the body itself,” Cynthia Aranow, M.D., professor at the Feinstein Institutes Lupus Center of Excellence, told The Mighty.
text: Medical science doesn’t yet have a definitive answer as to why the immune system will suddenly attack the body.
text: The gene defect that caused the immune system to attack the body and create an autoimmune disease could cause another autoimmune disease,” she explains.
text: Autoimmune diseases, which include a range of around 80 different illnesses from rheumatoid arthritis to type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, occur when the immune system attacks the body.
text: An autoimmune disease is a medical condition characterized by an overactive immune system which attacks the body, mistaking normal tissues in the body for harmful substances.
text: In autoimmune diseases, this process goes out of control and the immune system mistakenly attacks the body itself destroying the healthy tissue it was designed to protect.
text: Rheumatoid factor (RF), which, like ANA, can detect an abnormal protein that the immune system makes when attacking the body.
text: Instead, the immune system goes into overdrive and begins to attack the body’s normal, healthy organs and tissues, causing deterioration and destruction.