The Autoimmune Diseases

Contributors
Prelude
1 Four Decades of Self and Non-Self: Reflections on Autoimmunity
and Tolerance
2 Basis and Mechanisms of Self-Tolerance
3 Transgenic Models of Peripheral T-Cell Self-Tolerance and
Autoimmunity
4 Antigenic Determinants Involved in Induction and Propagation
of Autoimmunity
5 Costimulation and the Regulation of Autoimmunity
6 Genetic Influences: Major Histocompatibility Complex
7 Non-MHC Genetic Contributions to Autoimmune Disease
8 Environmental Determinants of Autoimmune Disease
9 Infection and Autoimmune Disease
10 Molecular Mimicry
11 Antigen Receptors
12 T-Cell Subsets (Th1, Th2) and Cytokines in Autoimmunity
13 Apoptosis, Autoantigens, and Autoimmunity
14 Animal Models of Autoimmunity: Spontaneous and Induced
15 Blood Cells: Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
16 Blood Cells: Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia Purpura
17 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
18 Antiphospholipid/Cofactor Syndromes
19 Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma)
20 Rheumatoid Arthritis
21 Sjogren`s Syndrome
22 Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
23 Diabetes
24 Autoimmune Gastritis and Pernicious Anemia
25 Inflammatory Bowel and Celiac Disease
26 Autoimmune Diseases: The Liver
27 Cutaneous Autoimmune Diseases
28 Autoimmune Diseases of the Central and Peripheral Nervous
Systems
29 Autoimmune Disease in the Kidney
30 Immune-Mediated Cardiovascular Disease
31 Myasthenia Gravis
32 Autoimmune Diseases of Muscle
33 Autoimmune Disease of the Testis and the Ovary
34 Vasculitis
35 Adrenal Autoimmunity and the Autoimmune Polyglandular
Syndromes Types I-III: Addison`s Disease, Hypoparathyroidism,
and Hypophysitis
36 Autoimmune Diseases of the Eye
37 Autoimmune Diseases: Cameos, Curiosities, and Shadowlands
38 Aging and Autoimmunity
39 Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Syndromes
40 Autoimmune Derangements in the Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
41 Diagnosis of Autoimmune Disease
42 Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Autoimmunity
43 Autoimmunity Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Index