12919 IUPAC Gold Book - autoimmune disease 10.1351/goldbook.12919 12919 current 1 Pathological condition resulting when an organism produces antibodies or specific cells that bind to constituents of its own tissues (autoantigens) and cause tissue injury. Such disease may include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and scleroderma. autoantigens https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12914 myasthenia gravis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13481 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13651 scleroderma https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13660 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13710 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1130 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12919/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12919/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12919/plain Citation: 'autoimmune disease' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12919 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-03T00:32:31+00:00