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Also known as hypersensitivity reaction disease, GO:0002524

Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction) is an immune response characterized by mechanisms that cause significant tissue damage or physiological dysfunction, whether directed against pathogens, harmless environmental antigens, or self-antigens that is reproducible upon re-exposure to the antigen. While hypersensitivity mechanisms can sometimes serve protective functions (such as control of infectious diseases), they are distinguished by their capacity to cause collateral tissue damage that may exceed any protective benefit. Collectively, hypersensitivities are extremely common:

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Hypersensitivity
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Types of hypersensitivity reactions
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Immunology

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disease
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has effect
Kounis syndrome
topic's main category
Category:Hypersensitivity
health specialty
immunology
permanent duplicated item
allergy
drug or therapy used for treatment
prednisolone
NCI Thesaurus ID
C3114
risk factor
smoking
Commons category
Hypersensitivity
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