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How is the antigen against which autoantibodies are formed, identified?
Say we suspect some new autoimmune disorder in a patient, and we collect blood for serology.
How are self antibodies differentiated from normal ones in the collected sample?
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Do the antibodies in a patient suffering from Hashimoto's, attack the thyroid hormones or the thyroid gland (or both?)?
If oral thyroid hormone supplement is administered, is the attack stopped or does it just create an excess of thyroid hormones so that even after a lot of it is destroyed by the antibodies, there is ...
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How does Celiac's Disease cause people to stop growing?
In all of the sites I've looked on, one of the symptoms of Celiac's Disease is the failure to grow in children. Why would an immune attack against gluten cause stunted growth?
Celiac.org states:
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