The Autoimmune Diseases

San Diego: Academic Press, 1998. 3rd ed. Large quarto in green glossy paper-backed boards; vii, 895 pages: illustrations; 29 cm Fine copy with very faint external wear. Binding tight; pages clean but for a small "83" in pen to fron free end paper upper outer corner. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0125969236

Contents: Prelude / Noel R. Rose and Ian R. Mackay -- 1. Four Decades of Self and Non-Self: Reflections on Autoimmunity and Tolerance / Gustav J. V. Nossal -- 2. Basis and Mechanisms of Self-Tolerance / A. Basten -- 3. Transgenic Models of Peripheral T-Cell Self-Tolerance and Autoimmunity / J. F. A. P. Miller -- 4. Antigenic Determinants Involved in Induction and Propagation of Autoimmunity / Kamal D. Moudgil and Eli E. Sercarz -- 5. Costimulation and the Regulation of Autoimmunity / Kevin J. Lafferty and Lawrence S. Gazda -- 6. Genetic Influences: Major Histocompatibility Complex / William W. Kwok and Gerald T. Nepom -- 7. Non-MHC Genetic Contributions to Autoimmune Disease / Timothy J. Vyse, John A. Todd and Brian L. Kotzin -- 8. Environmental Determinants of Autoimmune Disease / Antony Rosen and Livia Casciola-Rosen -- 9. Infection and Autoimmune Disease / Leonard C. Harrison and Geoffrey J. McColl -- 10. Molecular Mimicry / Robert S. Fujinami -- 11. Antigen Receptors / Ellen Heber-Katz -- 12. T-Cell Subsets (Th1, Th2) and Cytokines in Autoimmunity / Sergio Romagnani -- 13. Apoptosis, Autoantigens, and Autoimmunity / Carlos A. Casiano and Eng M. Tan -- 14. Animal Models of Autoimmunity: Spontaneous and Induced / Pierluigi E. Bigazzi -- 15. Blood Cells: Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia / Bruce C. Gilliland -- 16. Blood Cells: Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia Purpura / Bruce C. Gilliland -- 17. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / Morris Reichlin -- 18. Antiphospholipid/Cofactor Syndromes / Donato Alarcon-Segovia and Antonio R. Cabral -- 19. Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) / Claudio Galperin and M. Eric Gershwin -- 20. Rheumatoid Arthritis / John S. Sundy and Barton F. Haynes -- 21. Sjogren's Syndrome / M. N. Manoussakis, N. Talal and H. M. Moutsopoulos -- 22. Autoimmune Thyroid Disease / Anthony P. Weetman -- 23. Diabetes / Sabine Bieg and Ake Lernmark -- 24. Autoimmune Gastritis and Pernicious Anemia / Ban-Hock Toh, Paul A. Gleeson and Senga Whittingham -- 25. Inflammatory Bowel and Celiac Disease / David E. Elliott, Joseph A. Murray and Joel V. Weinstock -- 26. Autoimmune Diseases: The Liver / Michael P. Manns, Birgit Luttig and Petra Obermayer-Straub -- 27. Cutaneous Autoimmune Diseases / Mong-Shang Lin, Zhi Liu and Beth A. Drolet -- 28. Autoimmune Diseases of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems / Barry G. W. Arnason -- 29. Autoimmune Disease in the Kidney / Lorraine C. Racusen -- 30. Immune-Mediated Cardiovascular Disease / Noel R. Rose and Kenneth L. Baughman -- 31. Myasthenia Gravis / Daniel B. Drachman -- 32. Autoimmune Diseases of Muscle / Peter N. Hollingsworth, Michael J. Garlepp and Roger L. Dawkins -- 33. Autoimmune Disease of the Testis and the Ovary / Kenneth S. K. Tung -- 34. Vasculitis / J. Charles Jennette and Ronald J. Falk -- 35. Adrenal Autoimmunity and the Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndromes Types I-III: Addison's Disease, Hypoparathyroidism, and Hypophysitis / Yao-Hua Song, Yangxin Li and Noel K. MacLaren -- 36. Autoimmune Diseases of the Eye / Mitchell H. Friedlaender and Hiroshi Fujishima -- 37. Autoimmune Diseases: Cameos, Curiosities, and Shadowlands / Ian R. Mackay -- 38. Aging and Autoimmunity / John S. Manavalan, Irena Kirman and Kesheng Zhao -- 39. Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Syndromes / Grant J. Anhalt and Hossein C. Nousari -- 40. Autoimmune Derangements in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Franco Silvestris, Franco Dammacco and Ralph C. Williams, Jr. -- 41. Diagnosis of Autoimmune Disease / R. L. Dawkins, O. P. Martinez and E. M. Freitas -- 42. Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Autoimmunity / Reinhard Hohlfeld and Hartmut Wekerle -- 43. Autoimmunity Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow / Ian R. MacKay and Noel R. Rose. ** Weighs 5.3 lbs before packaging.Extra shipping costs may apply.**