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unusual facts about autoimmune disease


Cindy Duehring

As a result of this contamination or intoxication of an insecticide (against fleas) she eventually developed an Autoimmune disease.


Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Research is focused on four main areas: misfolded proteins and disease, intracellular membrane traffic, autoimmune disease and haematopoietic stem cell biology.

Microchimerism

One hypothesis is that these fetal cells might trigger a graft-versus-host reaction leading to autoimmune disease.

Tyrosine-protein kinase CSK

Csk's interaction with a phosphotase ("Lyp", gene product of PTPN22) is possibly associated with the increased autoimmune diseases associated with PTPN22 mutations.


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Brett Deacon

On 19 December 2013, Deacon was forced to retire due to a diagnosis of lupus, an autoimmune disease which in his case led to potentially life-threatening blood clots; he was immediately placed on blood thinners.

IDDM

Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, now known as Diabetes mellitus type 1, an autoimmune disease resulting in the destruction of insulin-producing cells.