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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Immune Complex Diseases
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Enfermedades del Complejo Inmune
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Doenças do Complexo Imune
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Synonyms English:
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Hypersensitivity, Type III
Type III Hypersensitivity
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Tree Number:
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C20.543.520
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Definition English:
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Group of diseases mediated by the deposition of large soluble complexes of antigen and antibody with resultant damage to tissue. Besides SERUM SICKNESS and the ARTHUS REACTION, evidence supports a pathogenic role for immune complexes in many other IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES including GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, systemic lupus erythematosus (LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC) and POLYARTERITIS NODOSA. |
Indexing Annotation English:
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dis caused by deposition of antigen-antibody complexes with resultant damage to tissue; "immune complex" = IMMUNE COMPLEX see ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX
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History Note English:
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93; was IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE 1972-92 (Prov 1972-73)
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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30919
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Unique Identifier:
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D007105
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Similar:
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DeCS CID-10 SciELO LILACS LIS
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