Molecular mechanisms of spondyloarthropathies
By: edited by Carlos López-Larrea, Roberto Díaz-Peña.
Contributors: López-Larrea, Carlos, 1953-; Díaz-Peña, Roberto, M.A.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 649; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 649.
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441902979
Subjects: Spondyloarthropathies -- Molecular aspects; Spondylarthropathies -- genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clinical assessment in the spondyloarthropathies / Ruth Wittoek and Herman Mielants; title: Imaging in spondyloarthritis / Walter P. Maksymowych; title: Spondyloarthritis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), and chondrocalcinosis / Jácome Brugues Armas, Ana Rita Couto, and Bruno Filipe Bettencourt; title: The enthesis organ concept and its relevance to the spondyloarthropathies / Michael Benjamin and Dennis McGonagle; title: Synovial and mucosal immunopathology in spondyloarthritis / Bernard Vandooren, Paul P. Tak, and Dominique Baeten; title: Bone loss in the spondyloarthropathies : role of osteoclast, RANKL, RANK, and OPG in the spondyloarthropathies / Allen P. Anandarajah and Edward M. Schwarz; title: RANKL/RANK as key factors for osteoclast development and bone loss in arthropathies / Andreas Leibbrandt and Josef M. Penninger; title: Bone formation versus bone resorption in ankylosing spondylitis / Georg Schett; title: Biomarkers in spondyloarthropathies / Chun-Hsiung Chen, David Tak Yan Yu, and Chung-Tei Chou; title: Therapy of spondyloarthritides / Jürgen Braun; title: Genomewide screens in ankylosing spondylitis / Matthew A. Brown; title: Subtypes of HLA-B27 : history and implications in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis / John D. Reveille; title: Implications of structural and thermodynamic studies of HLA-B27 subtypes exhibiting differential association with ankylosing spondylitis / Andreas Ziegler ... [et al.]; title: HLA-B27-bound peptide repertoires : their nature origin and pathogenetic relevance / José A. López de Castro.