Malalties autoimmunitàries

Infection and autoimmunity

0 Type: Book

"Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks the body organs instead of foreign invaders. This book deals with the various mechanisms by which infectious agents can trigger autoimmunity such as molecular mimicry and polyclonal activation. An overview is gi…

Genetics of rare autoimmune diseases

fromRare Diseases of the Immune System

0 Type: Book

"The main aim of this volume is to provide an updated overview of the genetic basis of a group of complex disorders that are considered rare individually, but show a relatively high prevalence on the whole in developed countries: the rare autoimmune diseases. These are chronic d…

Thymus Transcriptome and Cell Biology

0 Type: Book

"This volume focuses on challenging field in biomedicine that is the genetic control of central immune tolerance. It covers the thymus development, their cellular components and their respective function, the peculiar gene expression profiling (transcriptome) found in the medull…

Neurorheumatology: a comprehenisve guide to immune mediated disorder…

0 Type: Book

"This detailed, practical textbook focuses on immune mediated disorders of the nervous system with particular focus on systemic autoimmune disorders. Divided into three sections, the first discusses the neuroanatomical and pathophysiologic basis of immune mediated disorders of t…

Autoantibodies

by Shoenfeld, Yehuda, Peter, James B.

0 Type: Book

This volume is THE definitive, completely up-to-date, reference work for ALL researchers and clinicians working in autoimmunity. Up-to-Date: This is a timely critical review of more than 100 autoantibodies by leading experts in their respective fields, and includes many recent r…

Allergy and immunotoxicology in occupational health -- the next step

by Otsuki, Takemi, Di Gioacchino, Mario, Petrarca, Claudia

fromCurrent topics in environmental health and preventive medic…

0 Type: Book

This book presents a collection of the latest clinical and research findings in the field of allergy and immunotoxicology, covering the allergic responses to various nanoparticles and nanomaterials, posttreatment immune reconstruction, and monitoring the workplace environment. F…

Advanced Concepts in Human Immunology: Prospects for Disease Control

0 Type: Book

This book highlights information derived primarily from clinical samples, with particular reference to theoretical and scientific aspects of the human immune system. This text will focus on topics that range from host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease to host immune re…