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Current Concepts in Autoimmunity and Chronic Inflammation

The immune system has been known to be capable of distinguishing self from non-self since the pioneering work of Paul Erhlich more than a century ago. Originally described in experiments studying blood transfusion comp- ibility, the principle of "horror autotoxicus" is still valid, althoug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Radbruch, Andreas (Editor ), Lipsky, Peter E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 305
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • B Cell Tolerance-How to Make It and How to Break It
  • Breaking Ignorance: The Case of the Brain
  • Naturally Arising Foxp3-Expressing CD25+CD4+ Regulatory T Cells in Self-Tolerance and Autoimmune Disease
  • Sex Hormones and SLE: Influencing the Fate of Autoreactive B Cells
  • Innate (Over)immunity and Adaptive Autoimmune Disease
  • Can Unresolved Infection Precipitate Autoimmune Disease?
  • The Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases: Inborn Errors of the Innate Immune System
  • Inefficient Clearance of Dying Cells and Autoreactivity
  • The Importance of T Cell Interactions with Macrophages in Rheumatoid Cytokine Production
  • T Cell Activation as Starter and Motor of Rheumatic Inflammation
  • Signalling Pathways in B Cells: Implications for Autoimmunity
  • Immunological Memory Stabilizing Autoreactivity
  • Genetics of Autoimmune Diseases: A Multistep Process.