Autoantibodies and autoimmunity : molecular mechanisms in health and disease / edited by K. Michael Pollard

Includes bibliographical references and index

Prefactory chapter : the importance of the autoantibody-defined epitope / Eng M. Tan -- Self/non-self recognition / Alan G. Baxter -- Central and peripheral tolerance / Robert L. Rubin -- T-B cell interactions in autoimmunity / Barbara Schraml and Stanford L. Peng -- Cell death and autoimmunity / Carlos A. Casiano and Fabio J. Pacheco -- Self-antigen modification and autoimmunity / Stuart M. Levine, Livia Casciola-Rosen, and Antony Rosen -- Detection of antibodies / Rufus W. Burlingame and Carol Peebles -- Synthetic peptides for the analysis of B-cell epitopes in autoantigens / Jean-Paul Briand and Sylviane Muller --Autoantibodies and systematic autoimmune diseases / Karsten Conrad and Michael Bachmann -- Autoantibodies in systematic lupus erythematosus / Falk Hiepe -- Autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis / Tsuneyo Mimori -- Autoantibodies and organ-specific autoimmunity / H. Bantel, J. Kneser, and M.P. Manns -- Autoantibodies in autoimmune thyroid disease / Osvaldo Martinez and Bellur S. Prabhakar -- Autoantibodies in diabetes / Sarah M. Weenink and Michael R. Christie -- Autoantibody recognition of cellular and subcellular organelles / Ivan Raska and Sarka Ruzickova -- Antibody recognition of macromolecular structures / Erica A. Champion and Susan J. Baserga -- Autoantibodies and the cloning and characterization of cellular constituents / Edward K.L. Chan -- Tolerance and immunity to the Ro/La RNP complex / Catherine L. Keech, Tom P. Gordon, and James McCluskey -- Autoantibody recognition of functional sites / Carlo Selmi ... [et al.] -- Novel mechanisims of autoantibody induction and pathogenesis in experimental autoimmunity / Yulius Y. Setiady and Kenneth S.K. Tung -- Environmental factors that contribute to autoimmunity / Per Hultman -- Genetics of autoantibody production in mouse models of lupus / Dwight H. Kono and Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos -- Genetic manipulation / Matthew C. Pickering and Mariana Botto -- Perspectives / K. Michael Pollard