Modern immunosuppressives /

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Imprint:Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c2001.
Description:xii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Milestones in drug therapy
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4660645
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Other authors / contributors:Schuurman, H.-J. (Henk-Jan), 1950-
Feutren, G. (Gilles)
Bach, Jean-François.
ISBN:3764359811 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, global perspectives and history of immunosuppression / Roy Calne and David J. G. White
  • Cyclosporine: role of pharmacokinetics / Gary A. Levy, Gerard F. Murphy and Paul A. Keown
  • Tacrolimus / Suphamai Bunnapradist and Gabriel Danovitch
  • The potential role of immunosuppressive macrocyclic lactones / Johnny C. Hong and Barry D. Kahan
  • Inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase inhibition: mycophenolate mofetil / Christophe Legendre and Eric Thervet
  • Therapeutic anti-T-cell monoclonal antibodies / Lucienne Chatenoud and Jean-Francois Bach
  • Targeting the IL-2 receptor with antibodies or chimeric toxins / Terry B. Strom
  • Emerging therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of chronic allograft rejection / Pekka Hayry, Hanna Savolainen and Serdar Yilmaz / [et al.]
  • Tolerance induction / Stuart J. Knechtle and Majed M. Hamawy
  • Gene therapy approaches to immunosuppression / Reto A. Gadient, Thomas Buhler and Marcel Luyten / [et al.]
  • A rigorous approach to the diagnosis of synergy among combination therapies of immunosuppressive agents / Ting-Chau Chou and Barry D. Kahan
  • Lessons for transplantation of cyclosporine experience in the treatment of autoimmune diseases / Jean-Francois Bach.