Autoantibodies / edited by Yehuda Shoenfeld, M.D., FRCP, MACR, Professor of Rheumatology, Head: Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases, Tel-Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, Pier Luigi Meroni, M.D., Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community, Health - University of Milan, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Istituto G. Pini, Milan, Italy, M. Eric Gershwin, M.D., MACP, MACR, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, The Jack and Donald Chia Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shoenfeld, Yehuda, editor.

Meroni, Pier-Luigi, editor.

Gershwin, M. Eric, 1946- editor.

Series:

Elsevier science & technology books

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autoantibodies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lx, 855 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, MA : Elsevier, 2014.

Summary:

The new edition covers recent scientific advances, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic technologies. Each chapter is focused on a single family of autoantibodies. This important reference contains historical notes, definitions, origins and sources of antigens recognized genetic associations, mediated pathogenic mechanisms, methods of detection, as well as clinical utility (disease prevalence and association, diagnostic value, sensitivity and specificity, prognostic value). -- Publisher

This book covers recent scientific advances, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic technologies in the field of autoimmune diseases. Each chapter is focused on a single family of autoantibodies, providing historical notes, origins and sources of antigens recognized genetic associations, mediated pathogenic mechanisms, methods of detection, as well as clinical utility (disease prevalence and association, diagnostic value, sensitivity and specificity, prognostic value).

Contents:

part 1. Introduction : autoantibodies-unique characteristics

part 2. Allergic disease autoantibodies

part 3. Antineutrophil antibodies

part 4. Introduction : antinuclear antibodies

part 5. Autoantibodies to biologic factors/structures

part 6. Cardiac autoantibodies

part 7. Endocrine autoantibodies

part 8. GI and liver autoantibodies

part 9. Hematologic autoantibodies

part 10. Kidney autoantibodies

part 11. Neurological system autoantibodies

part 12. Rheumatic disease autoantibodies

part 13. Skin disease autoantibodies

part 14. Unique clinical situations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 20, 2013).

ISBN:

0-444-59377-2

OCLC:

879866576