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1960 J. D. Vaughan in J. L. Hollander et al. Arthritis & Allied Conditions (ed. 6) xxxi. 575 It is possible that there is some primary metabolic fault in the lymph tissue itself, leading to production of the numerous autoreactive substances.

1993 New Scientist 18 Sept. 16/1 But in people with MS, some of these cells turn ‘autoreactive’: they invade the central nervous system and attack the myelin sheath that encases and protects nerves.

2009 Jrnl. Theoret. Biol. 260 392 To prevent autoimmunity, regulatory T cells suppress the activity of the autoreactive effector T cells, but they also interrupt normal immune reactions against foreign antigens.