Vaccines, Immunology and Clinical Trials

Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

If immune system mistakenly attacks your own body then it is called as autoimmune disease. Generally, the immune system protects body against bacteria and viruses. But in an autoimmune disease, the immune system releases autoantibodies that attack healthy cells in body. The most common autoimmune diseases are Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriasis, Psoriatic arthritis, lupus, type 1 diabetes mellitus, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Myasthenia gravis and Vasculitis.