Infection and Autoimmunity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444632697 ISBN 13: 9780444632692

Verlag: Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd, 2015

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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 given with regard to bacteria, viruses, and parasites associated with autoimmunity, and a summary is given on classical autoimmune diseases and the infecting agents that can induce them.

• Includes completely updated and new chapters
• Brings the reader up to date and allows easy access to individual topics in one place
• Identifies infectious agents as pathogenic or protective in many autoimmune diseases

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Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks the body organs instead of foreign invaders. This book covers the various mechanisms by which infectious agents can trigger autoimmunity such as molecular mimicry, polyclonal activation, and many others. It provides an overview on bacteria, viruses, and parasites associated with autoimmunity as well as a summary on classical autoimmune diseases and the infecting agents that can induce them. Special attention is given to HSPs and transgenic mouse models to help the reader better understand infection-induced autoimmunity, and due to the fact that vaccines may contain infectious antigens, the controversial issue of the vaccine-autoimmunity relationship is critically reviewed.

Being the only book directed specifically at the interactions between infectious agents and autoimmunity,Infection and Autoimmunity, Second Edition is a must-read for clinicians, clinical investigators, pathologists, medical students and graduate students in the biomedical sciences, as well as research scientists in such fields as immunology, rheumatology, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology.

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• Verlag: Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0444632697
• ISBN 13: 9780444632692
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1040
• Herausgeber: Shoenfeld Yehuda, Agmon-Levin Nancy, Rose Noel R.