PHYSIOLOGICAL AUTOIMMUNITY OR AUTOAGGRESSION – HANDBOOK

CONTENTS:

1. PREFACE
2. MOLECULAR GENETICS OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS
3. MECHANISMS OF B-CELL TOLERANCE (PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A B-LYMPHOCYTE)
4. RECEPTOR EDITING IN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOID ORGANS
5. MECHANISMS OF T-CELL TOLERANCE
6. ROLE OF B-1 B-LYMPHOCYTES IN PHYSIOLOGICAL AND DISEASE AUTOIMMUNITY
7. NATURAL AUTOANTIBODIES IN HEALTHY PEOPLE
8. HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS – OWN OR FOREIGN ANTIGENS
9. HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DETERMINATES ITS FROM ITS NON-IS. DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF IMMUNE SURVEILLANCE
10. NEILS JERNE'S THEORY OF THE IMMUNE NETWORK
11. FAS-DEPENDENT APOPTOSIS AND AUTOIMMUNITY
12. INTRACELLULAR TRANSMISSION OF THE B-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR ACTIVATING SIGNAL
13. ORGAN-SPECIFIC AND SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
14. GENETIC CONTROL OF AUTOIMMUNITY
15. EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
16. THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
17. IMMUNOMODULATING TREATMENT OF SOME AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES WITH INFUSION OF LARGE DOSES OF VENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN PREPARATIONS