The University of Chicago Header Logo

Autoimmune Diseases

"Autoimmune Diseases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Disorders that are characterized by the production of antibodies that react with host tissues or immune effector cells that are autoreactive to endogenous peptides.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Autoimmune Diseases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Autoimmune Diseases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 170 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2016
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.