Current concepts in autoimmunity and chronic inflammation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Radbruch, A. (Andreas), Lipsky, Peter E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2006]
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; v. 305.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • B cell tolerance - how to make it and how to break it
  • Breaking ignorance : the case of the brain
  • Naturally arising Foxp3-expressing CD25⁺Cd4⁺ regulatory T cells in self tolerance and autoimmune disease
  • Sex hormones and SLS : influencing the fate of autoreactive B cells
  • Innate (over) immunity and adaptive autoimmune disease
  • Can unresolved infection precipitate autoimmune disease?
  • The systemic autoinflammatory diseases : inborn errors of the innate immune system
  • Inefficient clearance of dying cells and autoreactivity
  • The importance of T cell interactions with macrophages in rheumatoid cytokine production
  • T cell activation as starter and motor of rheumatic inflammation
  • Signalling pathways in B cells : implications for autoimmunity
  • Immunological memory stabilizing autoreactivity
  • Genetics of autoimmune diseases : a multistep process