Autoimmune Disease Pathogenesis, Genetics, Immunotherapy, Prophylaxis and Principles for Organ Transplantation /

• Main Authors: Adams, Duncan Dartrey (Author), Adams, Christopher Dartrey (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This book describes how the Jerne-Burnet Forbidden Clone Theory and the Adams-Knight H Gene Theory, solved the pathogenesis and genetics of the autoimmune diseases showing how specific immunotherapy and prophylaxis can be developed. Furthermore, Ebringer's discovery of two microbial triggers of...

Table of Contents:

• Discovery
• Pathogenesis
• Genetics
• Microbial Triggers
• Immunotherapy
• Prophylaxis
• Transplantation.