How to Use autoantibody in a Sentence

autoantibody

noun

• Swedo recruited her in 1999 to explore what autoantibodies from strep could do to the brain.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• This protein appears on the surface of autoantibody-producing B cells.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
• In canines, lupus presents very similarly to humans.18 As with humans, healthcare providers test dogs for autoantibodies to confirm or rule out a diagnosis of lupus.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Apr. 2023
• An autoantibody is an antibody produced by the immune system that is directed against one or more of the individual’s own proteins and can cause autoimmune diseases.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 June 2021
• Some of these autoantibody responses were largely disease-specific while others were shared across all three conditions.
  — Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
• Our recent research indicates that one type of autoantibody called antinuclear antibodies increased nearly 50 percent in the U.S. in less than 30 years.
  — Olivia Casey, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Some conditions that have autoantibodies and appear to be related to autoimmunity have been excluded from this list.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• In essence, the antibodies turned into autoantibodies: antibodies that attacked the self.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• Those autoantibody levels increase throughout youth and adolescence and eventually plateau by adulthood.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2022
• The study’s findings correspond with earlier research by Yonker, which also didn’t find increased levels of antibodies or autoantibodies in patients with myocarditis.
  — Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 5 May 2023
• The samples from patients with autoimmune disease produced higher levels of autoantibodies in reaction to proteins associated with Xist, the researchers found.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• These cells are the actual agents of destruction, so scientists investigating autoimmunity look for these T cell–autoantibody pairs.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• In the clearest cases, such as Graves’ disease, the illness definitely involves autoantibodies that lead to an immune system assault, inflammation and debilitating symptoms.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• The autoantibody hypothesis still warrants further research.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2021
• Past studies have also pointed to an overactive immune response: a condition called autoimmunity, whereby other immune cells mistakenly attack healthy tissue, often by producing autoantibodies that target the body’s proteins.
  — Kamal Nahas, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024