autoantibody

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?

Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.

Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)

Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?

Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)

Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor.

English auto-

English antibody

English autoantibody

From auto- + antibody.

Noun

autoantibody (plural autoantibodies)

1. An antibody formed in response to an agent (autoantigen) produced by the organism itself.
   • 2007 November 20, Aliyah Baruchin, “Twins on a Medical Odyssey After a Diagnosis of Diabetes”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In addition to having a relative with Type 1, people in that subgroup had insulin autoantibody levels equal to or greater than 80 milliunits per milliliter.

   • 2015 December 1, “Autoantibodies against Cytochrome P450 Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme in Dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) Affected with Hypoadrenocorticism (Addison’s Disease)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     The current study investigates autoantibodies against steroid synthesis enzymes in dogs with spontaneous hypoadrenocorticism.

Translations

Translations

• French: autoanticorps (fr)
• Greek: αυτοαντίσωμα (el) n (aftoantísoma)
• Hungarian: autoantitest
• Indonesian: autoantibodi
• Italian: autoanticorpo (it)
• Portuguese: autoanticorpo
• Spanish: autoanticuerpo

See also

• autoimmune