Maintaining self-control: The careful balance of the immune system
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19 May 2021Maintaining self-control: The careful balance of the immune system
Autoimmune diseases occur when an individual’s immune system fights their own body as if it was a foreign invader. However, in healthy people, these responses are prevented by a process known as immune tolerance. Many complex biological mechanisms maintain the necessary balance between immune activation and suppression to ensure immune tolerance does not prevent the body from effectively fighting pathogens.
