is parkinson's disease autoimmune
The cause of neuronal death in Parkinson's disease is still unknown, but a new study proposes that neurons may be mistaken for foreign invaders and killed by the person's own immune system, similar to the way autoimmune diseases like type I diabetes, celiac disease, and multiple sclerosis attack the body's cells.hese two types of neuronsâone of which is dopamine neurons in a brain region called the substantia nigraâdegenerate during Parkinson's disease. To see if living neurons use MHC-1 to display antigens (and not for some other purpose), Drs.