Current Concepts in Autoimmunity and Chronic Inflammation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Radbruch, Andreas (Editor), Lipsky, Peter E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 305
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.

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Table of Contents:

• 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.