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In type II hypersensitivity (or cytotoxic hypersensitivity) the antibodies produced by the immune response bind to antigens on the patient’s own cell surfaces. The antigens recognized in this way may either be intrinsic (self antigen innately part of the patient’s cells) or extrinsic (adsorbed onto the cells during exposure to some foreign antigen possibly as part of infection with a pathogen).