The decade of autoimmunity /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999. |
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| Description: | xviii, 431 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3830948 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Decade of Autoimunity
- 1. The mystery of autoimmune diseases
- 2. Innovations in Autoimmunity in the last decade
- 3. Thyroiditis and Myocarditis - A tale of two diseases
- 4. Autoimmune Thyroid Disease: An expanding spectrum of antibodies to the thyrotropin receptor
- 5. The antigens of PBC: Who are they and where do they come from
- 6. The search for an animal model for Graves' Disease
- 7. Hughes Syndrome: A short history of Antiphopholipid Syndrome (G.R.V. Hughes, M.A. Khamashta
- 8. Anticardiolipin antibody, thrombosis and atherosclerosis
- 9. B 2 -glycoprotein I and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome: In vitro and in vivo studies
- 10. Clinical associations of antibodies to phospholipids and/or their protein cofactors
- 11. Perspectives on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) - A model for autoimmunity
- 12. Pathogenic aspects of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- 13. Immunomodulation of experimental antiphospholipid syndrome: Lessons from murine models
- 14. Experimental Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: From a pathogenic antibody to immunomodulating proteins
- 15. What does the Wolf in Lupus bite? Reflections on the nature of the target antigen in SLE
- 16. Brain, Behaviour and Lupus
- 17. Sjwgren's Syndrome: The significance of epithelial cells
- 18. SSA/Ro and SSB/La autoantigens, their corresponding antibodies and their clinical relevance
- 19. The immunology of diabetes: revolution of concepts over a decade
- 20. The pathogenesis and clinical relevance of Heparin-Indiced Autoantibodies
- 21. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis induced by various antigens of the central nervous system
- Overview and relevance to Multiple Sclerosis
- 22. Immunosuppressive and immunomodulating therapeutic approaches for induction of self-tolerance in experimental autoimmune encephalo-myelitis (EAE and CR-EAE) and multiple sclerosis (MS)
- 23. Development of copolymer 1 (Copaxone") as a specific drug against multiple sclerosis
- 24. Pemphigus, an autoimmune disease of the
