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When your body encounters a germ, its first line of defense is your immune system. Specialized cells and organs help your body recognize and respond to foreign invaders. Your immune system even has its own circulatory system, called the lymphatic system.
If your immune system cannot do its job, the results can be serious. Disorders of the immune system include
An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Abed, Riadh T and de Pauw, Karel W (1999) An Evolutionary Hypothesis for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychological Immune System?. Behavioural Neurology 11:245-250.
BioVex - Gene delivery technology allowing pharmaceutical and genomics companies to assess the therapeutic value of identified genes and also allows genes to be used as therapeutic products to treat diseases from cancer to nervous and immune system disorders
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Develops and markets products targeted for treatment of cancer and diseases such as hepatitis B and C, cystic fibrosis and immune system disorders. Based in San Mateo, California. (Nasdaq: SCLN)
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. - Discovers and develops therapeutics for treatment of diseases and disorders of the central nervous and immune systems, including anxiety, depression, alzheimer's disease, obesity, stroke and multiple sclerosis. (Nasdaq: NBIX).
CGD Home Page - Chronic granulomatous disease website. CGD is an immune system disorder which affects the phagocytes. The website has information and a message board.
Primary Immunodeficiency Association - British information and support group for primary immunodeficiencies and other disorders of the immune system.
Immune Web - Support and information forum for people with multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other immune system disorders.
Dean Burk - Stop the progress of rheumatiod arthritis and other immune system disorders, without dangerous medicines.
Self-Reported Systemic, Immune-Mediated Disorders in Patients with and without Proplast-Teflon Implants of the TMJ - Examines self-reported systemic and immune mediated disorders in patients with Proplast-Teflon TMJ implants by comparing them to a group who was not exposed to these alloplastic implants and to a group who has had these implants removed.
Dexamethasone - Suppresses inflammation and normal immune response, and is used systemically and locally to treat chronic inflammatory disorders, severe allergies, and other diseases.