Autoantibodies and autoimmunity
Subtitle: molecular mechanisms in health and disease
By: edited by K. Michael Pollard.
Contributors: Pollard, K. Michael
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Weinheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Autoantibodies; Autoimmunity; Autoantibodies; Autoimmunity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prefactory chapter : the importance of the autoantibody-defined epitope / Eng M. Tan; title: Self/non-self recognition / Alan G. Baxter; title: Central and peripheral tolerance / Robert L. Rubin; title: T-B cell interactions in autoimmunity / Barbara Schraml and Stanford L. Peng; title: Cell death and autoimmunity / Carlos A. Casiano and Fabio J. Pacheco; title: Self-antigen modification and autoimmunity / Stuart M. Levine, Livia Casciola-Rosen, and Antony Rosen; title: Detection of antibodies / Rufus W. Burlingame and Carol Peebles; title: Synthetic peptides for the analysis of B-cell epitopes in autoantigens / Jean-Paul Briand and Sylviane Muller; title: Autoantibodies and systematic autoimmune diseases / Karsten Conrad and Michael Bachmann; title: Autoantibodies in systematic lupus erythematosus / Falk Hiepe; title: Autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis / Tsuneyo Mimori; title: Autoantibodies and organ-specific autoimmunity / H. Bantel, J. Kneser, and M.P. Manns; title: Autoantibodies in autoimmune thyroid disease / Osvaldo Martinez and Bellur S. Prabhakar; title: Autoantibodies in diabetes / Sarah M. Weenink and Michael R. Christie; title: Autoantibody recognition of cellular and subcellular organelles / Ivan Raška and Šárka Růžičková; title: Antibody recognition of macromolecular structures / Erica A. Champion and Susan J. Baserga; title: Autoantibodies and the cloning and characterization of cellular constituents / Edward K.L. Chan; title: Tolerance and immunity to the Ro/La RNP complex / Catherine L. Keech, Tom P. Gordon, and James McCluskey; title: Autoantibody recognition of functional sites / Carlo Selmi ... [et al.]; title: Novel mechanisims of autoantibody induction and pathogenesis in experimental autoimmunity / Yulius Y. Setiady and Kenneth S.K. Tung; title: Environmental factors that contribute to autoimmunity / Per Hultman; title: Genetics of autoantibody production in mouse models of lupus / Dwight H. Kono and Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos; title: Genetic manipulation / Matthew C. Pickering and Mariana Botto; title: Perspectives / K. Michael Pollard.