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Autoimmune disease
Autoimmune diseases
arise from an abnormal
immune response
of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body (
autoimmunity
). This may be restricted to certain
organ
s (e.g. in
autoimmune thyroiditis
) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g.
Goodpasture's disease
which may affect the
basement membrane
in both the
lung
and the
kidney
).
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