Immunogenetics of Autoimmune Disease

• Main Authors: Oksenberg, Jorge (Author), Brassat, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Medical Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Molecular Medicine.

utoimmunity is the downstream outcome of a rather extensive and coordinated series of events that include loss of self-tolerance, peripheral lymphocyte Aactivation, disruption of the blood-systems barriers, cellular infiltration into the target organs and local inflammation. Cytokines, adhesion mole...

Table of Contents:

• HLA and Autoimmunity
• Genomic Variation and Autoimmune Disease
• Endocrine Diseases
• Endocrine Diseases
• Central and Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
• Immunogenetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Gastroenterologic and Hepatic Diseases
• Inflammatory Myopathies
• Hematologic Diseases
• Genetics of Autoimmune Myocarditis.