Autoimmune diseases /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, Boston :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Autoimmunity : a history of the early struggle for recognition
- Structural and functional aspects of the innate and adaptive systems of immunity
- General features of autoimmune diseases
- Antigen presentation, dendritic cells, and autoimmunity
- Major histocompatibility complex and autoimmunity
- T cells and autoimmunity
- Role of Th1 and Th2 cells in autoimmunity
- Tolerance and autoimmunity : T cells
- Regulatory T cells
- Peptide-based instruction of suppressor commitment in naï̈ve T cells
- B cells and autoimmunity
- Memory B cell development
- Tolerance and autoimmunity : B cells
- Generation of T-cell antigenic determinants in autoimmunity and their recognition
- Apoptptic cells as a source of autoantigens
- Effector mechanisms of autoimmunity : antibodies and immune complexes
- Functional effects of autoantibodies
- Adhesion molecules and chemoattractants in the pathogenesis and treatment of autoimmune diseases
- Signaling pathways in T and B lymphocytes
- Genetics and autoimmunity : HLA and MHC genes
- Genetics and autoimmunity : non-MHC genes
- Infections, immunity, and autoimmunity
- Noninfectious enviromental agents and autoimmunity
- Vaccines and autoimmunity
- Sex, pregnancy, and autoimmunity
- Animal models and autoimmune disease
- Systemic lupus erythematosus and related diseases : clinical features
- systemic lubus erythematosus : immunologic features
- Systemic sclerosis, scleroderma
- Antophospholipid syndrome
- Sjö̈̈̈̈gren syndrome
- -- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spondyloarthritis and chronic idiopathic arthropathies
- Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
- Thyroid disease
- Type 1 diabetes
- Adrenalitis
- Polyendocrine syndromes
- Gastritis and pernicious anemia
- Hypophysitis
- Hemolytic anemia
- Thrombocytopenic purpura
- Neutropenia
- Aplastic anemia
- Clotting disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Myasthenia gravis and other antibody-associated neurological diseases
- Ocular disease
- Inner ear disease
- Celiac disease
- Inflammatory bowel diseases : ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
- Chronic hepatitis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Pancreatitis
- Bullous skin diseases : pemphigus and pemphigoid
- Non-bullous skin diseases : alopecia, vitiligo, psoriasis and urticaria
- Kidney disease : Goodpasture's disease, lupus nephritis, ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis
- Orchitis and male infertility
- Oophoritis
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy
- Atherosclerosis : autoimmunity to heat-shock proteins
- Necrotizing arteritis and small vessel vasculitis
- Large and medium vessel vasculitides
- Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and autoimmune disorders of the lung
- Paraneoplastic neurologic diseases : autoimmune responses to tumor antigens
- Lymphoma and autoimmune disease
- Apoptosis and autoimmunity : lymphoproliferative syndromes
- Cameos
- Autoantibody assays, testing, and standardization
- T cell assays
- Prediction of autoimmune disease
- Prevention of autoimmune disease : Type 1 diabetes as a paradigm
- Emerging therapies for autoimmune diseases
- Advocatus diaboli : what is not known about autoimmune disease