Liver immunology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
Hanley & Belfus,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Basic immunological terms and concepts : a short primer of fundamental immunology
- Hepatoimmunology : from horizon to harborside
- Lymphoid repertoires in healthy liver
- Intrahepatic T cells
- Role and function of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells
- Intrahepatic immune responses in bacterial and parasitic infections
- Intrahepatic NKT cells
- Dendritic cells and other antigen-presenting cells of the liver and in liver disease
- Mechanisms of hepatic tolerance
- Kupffer cell dysfunction in alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases
- Mechanisms of acute liver failure
- Autoantibodies in liver diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma
- T cells, NKT cells, and NK cells in an experimental model of autoimmune hepatitis
- Immunopathogenesis and treatment of hepatitis B virus infection
- Immunopathogenesis and therapy of hepatitis C
- Non-A-E hepatitis : does it exist, its treatment and proposed pathogenesis, and the viruses identified on its discovery route
- Animal models of autoimmune diseases of the liver
- Genetics of autoimmune liver disease
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Overlap syndromes
- Drug-induced immune-mediated liver disease
- Immunologic tolerance to organ transplants, including xenografts
- Pharmacokinetics of immunosuppressive drugs
- Diagnosis and management of rejection
- Chimerism and liver transplantation
- Autoimmunity after liver transplantation