Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Immunity acquired through disease, or congenital, as distinguished from that effected by the injection of prophylactic serums.
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Examples
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It's even been shown that inducing oral tolerance to self-antigens can aid in prevention of auto-immunity.
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Again, auto-immunity occurs when we neglect our heart, our conscience, our selves.
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Again, auto-immunity occurs when we neglect our heart, our conscience, our selves.
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Again, auto-immunity occurs when we neglect our heart, our conscience, our selves.
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The new classification criteria considers the amount of inflammation found in the patient's joints, how many joints are affected, which joints are affected, how long symptoms have lasted and laboratory tests for auto-immunity and inflammation.
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If there is war between us it's auto-immunity, my reflection, other self cellmate
Knocking From Inside 2009
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Miyamoto A, Nakayama K, Imaki H, Hirose S, Jiang Y, et al. (2002) Increased proliferation of B cells and auto-immunity in mice lacking protein kinase Cdelta.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Masamichi Koyanagi et al. 2009
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According to the article’s author, former Telegraph science editor Roger Highfield, “This raised the fascinating possibility that anti-Neu5Gc antibodies are involved in auto-immunity.
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