Friday, 14 November 2014

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease, where the body views and attacks the cartilage as a pathogen. It is really harmful and there are no distinct causes, however, there are genetic correlations. There is no solution to treating this disease. The patient will be given drugs that reduce the increase of immune cells in joints.

A possible solution could be to cover the MHC (a protein identifies a cell of an individual) with other accepted MHC. this would reduce the target of the immune cells and at the same time drugs should be given to reduce the effect.

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