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To: SheLion

Sounds like asthma needs to be reclassified as an autoimmune disease.


4 posted on 03/17/2006 7:18:41 AM PST by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: MamaLucci
Sounds like asthma needs to be reclassified as an autoimmune disease.

I'm not sure what is going on here.  Times have changed yet asthma is getting worse.  Scary.

6 posted on 03/17/2006 7:19:55 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: MamaLucci
Sounds like asthma needs to be reclassified as an autoimmune disease.

Not quite - autoimmune would suggest self-recognition by immunoglobulins. This is more a defect in the T cells in which they produce an inflammatory response where one is not needed or wanted.

8 posted on 03/17/2006 7:29:50 AM PST by corkoman
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