查看更多>>摘要:The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion suppliedby the inventors: “Autoimmune diseases are immune system diseases characterized by the production ofantibodies directed against the self (i.e., a utoantibodies), which react with the subject’s own antigens.Depending on the in volved mechanisms of action, certain autoimmune diseases have at times also beenclassified as inflammatory diseases. Some of the most common autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseasesinclude: Lupus erythematosus, uveitis, Behcet’s disease, s arcoidosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, rheumatoid polyarthritis, juvenile polyarthritis , Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome, gout, osteoarthritis, polymyositis,myocardi tis, primary biliary cirrhosis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sc lerosis and otherdemyelinating diseases, aplastic anemia, idiopathic thrombocyt openia purpura, any disease associatedwith non-tumor lymphoproliferation, B-cel l lymphoma, Simmonds’ panhypopituitarism, Basedow-Graves’disease and Graves’ op hthalmopathy, subacute thyroiditis and Hashimoto’s disease, Addison’s disease, chronic hepatitis, and Type I Diabetes Mellitus.