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What does AID stand for?

AID stands for Auto-Immune Disease


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Rosacea's actually an auto-immune disease and, like most auto-immune diseases, we don't actually know what causes it, but there's a very strong association with something called dysbiosis, a bacterial imbalance and overgrowth of the wrong kinds of bacteria in the gut, News.
DOHA A group of scientists, including Sidra Medical and Research Center's Chief Research Officer Francesco M Marincola, has discovered that a gene called Bach2 may play a central role in the development of a range of allergic and auto-immune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, asthma, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, and Type-1 diabetes.
When an interferon is given as a drug it enhances the body's natural defences against tumours and viruses and, as it happens, auto-immune diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis.