Chapter 18, Problem 3CT

Summary Introduction

To answer:

The clinical consequences of an autoimmune response to estrogen receptors.

Introduction:

Autoimmune disorders are where one’s own body destroys its cells. It is found that IgG plays an important role in autoimmune disorders. The body’s defense mechanism becomes the body’s attacker. IgG thinks of its own cell as an antigen, when there is no response from the cell, and it destroys it.