autoantibody
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Quadros’s research has found that a specific autoantibody blocks the transport of folate from mother to fetus during pregnancy and when present after birth, the infant’s brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025
Altogether, they and Barcelona colleague Francesc Graus have uncovered 11 of the 18 known varieties: a rogue’s gallery with sharply different symptoms depending on the autoantibody responsible.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
Luckily, the anti-DSG3 B cells are easy to find because they have a highly distinctive marker—basically a version of the anti-DSG3 autoantibody stuck on their surfaces.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2021
What’s unusual about this result is that most autoantibody immune disorders appear in women, as is the case with the chronic disease lupus.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2020
An antibody that inappropriately marks self-components as foreign is termed an autoantibody.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
The finger-prick blood test checks for autoantibodies - proteins that the immune system makes which can attack the body's own tissues.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
In diabetes, these autoantibodies attack the pancreas - the organ which has the job of making insulin to control blood sugar.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
The current mainstay of therapy for this life-threatening blood disorder is plasma exchange, which removes the harmful autoantibodies and provides extra ADAMTS13.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
Bendapudi noted that the infused rADAMTS13 overwhelmed the inhibitory autoantibodies in the patient and reversed the thrombotic effects of iTTP.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
Today, first-line immunotherapies include plasmapheresis, in which blood is circulated outside the body to purge plasma of antibodies, or an infusion of immunoglobulins—antibodies produced by plasma cells—which prompts the body to sop up autoantibodies.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
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