Autoantibody
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Used for
autoimmune antibody, self reactive antibody
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Broader Terms
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Narrower Terms
antinuclear autoantibody, rheumatoid factor
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Related Terms
autoimmune disorder, autoimmunity, systemic scleroderma
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Scope Note
antibody directed against an individual's normal antigenic tissue constituents.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- A natural autoantibody is encoded by germline heavy and lambda light chain variable region genes without somatic mutation.
- The rheumatoid factor reactivity of a human IgG monoclonal autoantibody is encoded by a variant V kappa II L chain gene.
- The noun autoantibody has one meaning: Meaning #1: an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it Wikipedia autoantibody An autoantibody is a protein manufactured by the immune system that is directed against one or more of the host's own proteins.
- Autoantibody is then able to leak into a limited area of a single hemisphere.
- The neuronal nuclear antigen recognized by the human anti-Ri autoantibody is expressed in central but not peripheral nervous system neurons.
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