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Idiotypes in Medicine: Autoimmunity, Infection and Cancer
  • Author : R.C. Kennedy
  • Release Date : 19 November 1997
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Genre : Medical
  • Pages : 540
  • ISBN 13 : 0080534430
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Book Description: This is the most comprehensive review of the idiotypic network available. All the current knowledge of idiotypes of the various antibodies is incorporated in this volume. The pathogenic role of idiotypes in autoimmunity and cancer is reviewed in depth. The therapeutic part focusses on harnessing anti-idiotypes for treating autoimmunological disorders, and on the employment of idiotypes for vaccines in cancer and infectious diseases, as well as explaining the manipulation of the idiotypic network in autoimmunity and cancer idiotypes and vaccines.

Idiotypes in Medicine Autoimmunity Infection and Cancer

Idiotypes in Medicine Autoimmunity Infection and Cancer

Author : R.C. Kennedy,S. Ferrone,Yehuda Shoenfeld
Publisher : Elsevier
Genre : Medical
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This is the most comprehensive review of the idiotypic network available. All the current knowledge of idiotypes of the various antibodies is incorporated in this volume. The pathogenic role of idiotypes in autoimmunity and cancer is reviewed in depth. The therapeutic part focusses on harnessing anti-idiotypes for treating autoimmunological disorders, ...

Infection and Autoimmunity

Infection and Autoimmunity

Author : Yehuda Shoenfeld,Nancy Agmon-Levin,Noel R Rose
Publisher : Elsevier
Genre : Medical
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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 ...

Infection and Autoimmunity

Infection and Autoimmunity

Author : Yehuda Shoenfeld,Nancy Agmon-Levin,Noel Richard Rose,Y. Shoenfeld
Publisher : Elsevier
Genre : Medical
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Infection and Autoimmunity encompasses the different mechanisms involved in the infection-autoimmunity association/induction. Special attention is given to heat shock proteins (HSPs) and to transgenic mouse models to better understand infection-induced autoimmunity. Organized into six parts, this book first discusses the mechanisms of autoimmune induction by infection. Some chapters follow ...

Vaccines and Autoimmunity

Vaccines and Autoimmunity

Author : Yehuda Shoenfeld,Nancy Agmon-Levin,Lucija Tomljenovic
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Science
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In light of the discovery of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, or ASIA, Vaccines and Autoimmunity explores the role of adjuvants – specifically aluminum in different vaccines – and how they can induce diverse autoimmune clinical manifestations in genetically prone individuals. Vaccines and Autoimmunity is divided into three sections; the first contextualizes ...

The Role of Infections in Autoimmune Diseases

The Role of Infections in Autoimmune Diseases

Author : Hamidreza Honarmand,Zohreh Zareichian
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Genre : Uncategorized
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Many environmental factors are known to affect the immune system. They may play a role as triggers of autoimmunity. Bacterial, viral and parasitic infections are known to induce and exacerbate autoimmune diseases, mainly by the mechanism of molecular mimicry. Actually viruses and bacteria are the major postulated environmental triggers of ...

The Autoimmune Brain

The Autoimmune Brain

Author : David S. Younger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Genre : Health & Fitness
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There are millions of people who experience issues related to brain health--depression, attention issues, anxiety, forgetfulness, fatigue, and even chronic pain--yet can’t figure out what’s causing their problems and can’t find any relief. They may have seen a myriad of doctors, many of whom do not take ...

Infections in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Risk Factors and Management Volume 16

Infections in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Risk Factors and Management Volume 16

Author : James Galloway
Publisher : Handbook of Systemic Autoimmun
Genre : Medical
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Infections in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: Risk Factors and Management, Volume Sixteen describes the state-of-the-art of the risk factors and management treating the most common systemic autoimmune diseases (SADS). This updated volume consists of an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of what different types of infectious diseases exist, followed ...

Janeway s Immunobiology

Janeway s Immunobiology

Author : Kenneth Murphy,Paul Travers,Mark Walport,Peter Walter
Publisher : Garland Science
Genre : Medical
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The Janeway's Immunobiology CD-ROM, Immunobiology Interactive, is included with each book, and can be purchased separately. It contains animations and videos with voiceover narration, as well as the figures from the text for presentation purposes....

Mosaic of Autoimmunity

Mosaic of Autoimmunity

Author : Carlo Perricone,Yehuda Shoenfeld
Publisher : Academic Press
Genre : Medical
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The Mosaic of Autoimmunity: The Novel Factors of Autoimmune Diseases describes the multifactorial origin and diversity of expression of autoimmune diseases in humans. The term implies that different combinations of factors in autoimmunity produce varying and unique clinical pictures in a wide spectrum of autoimmune diseases. Most of the factors ...

Microorganisms and Autoimmune Diseases

Microorganisms and Autoimmune Diseases

Author : Herman Friedman,Noel R. Rose,Mauro Bendinelli
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Medical
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Experts in microbiology and autoimmunity examine the association between microorganisms and the development of specific categories of autoimmune diseases. The opening chapters explore the bacterial induction of diseases considered autoimmune in nature. Subsequent chapters describe the role of viruses in the induction of these diseases and of diseases with an ...

Stress Inducible Cellular Responses

Stress Inducible Cellular Responses

Author : U. Feige,R.I. Morimoto,Barbara Polla
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Genre : Science
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This book will deal with heat shock proteins and more generally with stress-related inducible gene expression as a pleiotropic adaptive response to stress. It presents a textbook-like overview of the field not only to heat shock experts, but to physiologists, pharmacologists, physicians, neuropsychologists and others as well. It is intended ...

Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection

Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection

Author : Sabra L. Klein,Craig Roberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Medical
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Why sex matters Among human and nonhuman animals, the prevalence and intensity of infection typically is higher in males than females and may reflect differences in exposure as well as susceptibility to pathogens. Elevated immunity among females is a double-edged sword in which it is beneficial against infectious diseases but ...