2007-01-02 04:53:11 · 6 answers · asked by niyati r 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
No. Autoimmune diseases are not stem cell, but end cell (or end products of cells) disorders. The already differentiated cells of the immune system mistakenly take the proteins of the body as being foreign. The stem cells are precursors that would make all of the cells of the immune system.
2007-01-02 06:57:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Autoimmune disease is a disease when the bodies own immune system does recognise self cells and therefore attacks them. it maybe down to mutation in heamopoetic stem cells which are the cells that give rise to all the components of the blood.
2007-01-02 05:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by Zebzub 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. autoimmune diseases are when antibodies produced by the human body start attacking the body's tissues. the antibodies are produced due to infections by viruses or bacteria. some antibodies can attach to human tissue because the bacterial membranes are very similar to their human hosts. thus, the macrophages and the killer t cells and lymphocytes start attacking the human cells because the antibodies produced to fight infection attach to the human cells because they look the same. the immune system is not very smart. i hope that helped.
A common sort of autoimmune disease is lupus or some streptococcus induced disease.
stem cells are just cells that can morph into any tissue in the host when required. they have nothing to do with autoimmune diseases.
2007-01-02 04:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by Asher Madan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. These are diseases where your own body's immune system turns its own cells. Examples are diabetes and ALS (Lou Garrik's Disease).
2007-01-02 04:56:24 · answer #4 · answered by Terence C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO
2007-01-03 00:33:41 · answer #5 · answered by Royal Bengal Tiger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all...
2007-01-02 23:23:00 · answer #6 · answered by gaurav s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋