Immunity, Inflammation, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Date
2007-06
Authors
Harper, Erica
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Publisher
Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal
Abstract
Overall, the body's immune response has one primary function: to protect
the body from an object that the body does not recognize as a normal
object. The immune response can be either normal or abnormal.
Inflammation is also one of the body's first responses to infections as the
body tries to rush immune cells and cytotoxic chemicals to the infected
tissue to defend against the infections or foreign particles.
Arthritis tends to develop inflammation in the joints and their surrounding
tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the body
perceives tissue in the joints as being a foreign object and fights the tissue through an immune response.
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Keywords
Immunity , Rheumatoid arthritis , Inflammation
Citation
Harper, Erica (2007). Immunity, Inflammation, and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, 1(2).