The autoimmune diseases / edited by Noel R. Rose, Ian R. Mackay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Autoimmune disease: reflections and projections -- Autoimmunity: a history of the early struggle for recognition -- General features of autoimmune disease -- Innate and adaptive systems of immunity -- Immunological tolerance: T cells -- T cells and their subsets in autoimmunity -- The role of invariant natural killer T cells in autoimmune diseases -- B-cell development: how to become one of the chosen ones -- B cell activation and b cell tolerance -- Macrophages and autoimmunity -- Dendritic cells in autoimmune disease -- Natural killer cells -- Granulocytes: neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils -- The roles and contributions of the complement system in the pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases -- Cytokines, their receptors and signals -- Cell death and autoimmune disease -- Autophagy in autoimmunity -- Effector mechanisms in autoimmunity -- Diet, the gut microbiome, and autoimmune diseases -- Noninfectious environmental agents and autoimmunity -- Microbial infection as a trigger of T-cell autoimmunity -- Autoimmune diseases: the role for vaccines -- Genetic predisposition, humans -- Sexual dimorphism in the immune system -- Epigenetics of autoimmune diseases -- Genetic predisposition to autoimmune diseases conferred by the major histocompatibility complex: utility of animal models -- Animal models of organ-specific autoimmune disease -- Autoimmunity in primary immunodeficiency disorders -- Animal models: systemic autoimmune diseases -- Systemic lupus erythematosus -- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) -- Antiphospholipid syndrome -- Sjogren's syndrome -- Rheumatoid arthritis -- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis -- Spondyloarthritides -- The autoimmune myopathies -- Immunoglobulin g4-related disease -- Polyendocrine syndromes -- Thyroid disease -- Autoimmune (type 1) diabetes -- Adrenalitis -- Autoimmune hypophysitis -- Autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia -- Celiac disease -- Inflammatory bowel disease -- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia -- Immune thrombocytopenia: a complex autoimmune disease

Acquired aplastic anemia -- Autoimmune clotting dysfunction -- Multiple sclerosis -- Peripheral neuropathies -- Myasthenia gravis and related disorders -- Ocular disease -- Immune-mediated inner ear disease -- Autoimmune and autoantibody-associated encephalomyelopathies -- Hepatitis -- Primary biliary cholangitis -- Autoimmune pancreatitis and immunoglobulin g4-related disease -- Autoimmune bullous skin diseases: pemphigus and pemphigoid -- Nonbullous skin diseases: alopecia areata, vitiligo, psoriasis, and urticaria -- Autoimmune orchitis and autoimmune oophoritis -- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease -- Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy -- Necrotizing arteritis and small-vessel vasculitis -- Large and medium-vessel vasculitides -- Idiopathic and autoimmune interstitial lung disease -- Autoimmune diseases in the kidney -- Autoantibody assays: performance, interpretation, and standardization -- Prevention of autoimmune disease: the type diabetes paradigm -- Treatment of autoimmune disease: established therapies -- Emerging biological and molecular therapies in autoimmune disease -- Cameos: candidates and curiosities.

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