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Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts (down to the sub-molecular levels) as "Self", which results in an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease, the prominent examples being Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren's syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
The illusory misconception that an individual's immune system is totally incapable of recognising "self" antigens is not new. Paul Ehrlich, at the beginning of the twentieth century, proposed the concept of horror autotoxicus, wherein a 'normal' body does not mount an immune response against its own tissues. Any autoimmune response thus was perceived to be abnormal and postulated to be connected with human disease. Now, it is accepted that autoimmune responses are vital to the development and functioning of vertebrate immune system, and central to the development of immunological tolerance to self-antigens. The latter concept has been somewhat prematurely termed natural autoimmunity. Autoimmunity should not be confused with alloimmunity.
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