Foreword: M Eric Gershwin and Yehuda Shoenfeld. .
Part I: Principles of Autoimmunity:.
1. Posttranslational Modifications of Self-Antigens: Hester A.
Doyle and Mark J. Mamula.
2. Expression and Reexpression of Recombination Activating Genes:
Relevance to the Development of Autoimmune States: Sophie Hillion,
Caroline Rochas, Pierre Youinou, and Christophe Jamin.
3. B Lymphocytes Are Required for Development and Treatment of
Autoimmune Diseases: Pierre Youinou, Christophe Jamin,
Jacques-Olivier Pers, Christian Berthou, Alain Saraux, and Yves
Renaudineau.
4. BAFF Overexpression Is Associated with Autoantibody Production
in Autoimmune Diseases: Jacques-Olivier Pers, Capucine Daridon,
Valérie Devauchelle, Sandrine Jousse, Alain Saraux, Christophe
Jamin, and Pierre Youinou.
5. Histo-Blood Group Antigens as Allo- and Autoantigens: Urs E.
Nydegger, Hendrik Tevaearai, Pascal Berdat, Robert Rieben, Thierry
Carrel, Paul Mohacsi, and Willy A. Flegel.
6. The Mechanism of Molecular Redundancy in Autoimmune Inflammation
in the Context of CD44 Deficiency: David Naor, Shlomo Nedvetzki,
Nathalie Assayag, Robin L. Thurmond, Jing-Feng Huang, and Eva A.
Turley.
7. Functional Genomics in Early Autoimmunity: Evie Melanitou.
8. IgE and FcRI Regulation: Donald MacGlashan, Jr.
9. Interspecific Structural Differences in Nucleosome as Revealed
by Heteroimmunization in Mice with Human Nucleosome: Y Kanai, M
Watanabe, and T Kubota.
10. Differential Regulation of the IL-10 Gene in Th1 and Th2 T
Cells: Kyu-Ho Kang and Sin-Hyeog Im.
11. Central Memory and Effector Memory Subsets of Human CD4+ and
CD8+ T Cells Display Differential Sensitivity to TNF--Induced
Apoptosis: Sudhir Gupta, Ruifen Bi, and Sastry Gollapudi.
12. Non-Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Suppressor Lymphocytes in Diseases
Characterized by Chronic Immune Responses and Inflammation: G
Filaci, M Rizzi, M Setti, D Fenoglio, M Fravega, M Basso, G
Ansaldo, P Ceppa, G Borgonovo, G Murdaca, F Ferrera, A Picciotto, R
Fiocca, G Torre, and F Indiveri.
13. Long-Lived Plasma Cells and Their Contribution to Autoimmunity:
Bimba F. Hoyer, Rudolf A. Manz, andreas Radbruch, and Falk
Hiepe.
14. What Makes an Autoantigen an Autoantigen?: Chih-Te Wu, M Eric
Gershwin, and Paul A. Davis.
15. DNA Lesions and Repair in Immunoglobulin Class Switch
Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation: Zhenming Xu, Zsolt Fulop,
Yuan Zhong, Albert J. Evinger, Iii, Hong Zan, and Paolo Casali.
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Part II: Diagnostic Considerations of Autoimmunity:.
16. Cross-Reactivity of IgM and IgG Anticardiolipin Antibodies with
Oxidized-Low Density Lipoproteins: J Damoiseaux, A D Jeyasekharan,
R Theunissen, and J W Cohen Tervaert.
17. The Anti-Alpha-Actinin Test Completes Anti-DNA Determination in
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: S Croquefer, Y Renaudineau, S Jousse,
P Gueguen, S Ansart, A Saraux, and P Youinou.
18. The Relevance of Autoantigen Source and Cutoff Definition in
Antichromatin (Nucleosome) Antibody Immunoassays: Danilo Villalta,
Renato Tozzoli, Nicola Bizzaro, Elio Tonutti, Anna Ghirardello, and
Andrea Doria.
19. Value of a New Automated Fluorescence Immunoassay (EliA) for
PR3 and MPO-ANCA in Monitoring Disease Activity in ANCA-Associated
Systemic Vasculitis: Renato Alberto Sinico, Antonella Radice,
Caterina Corace, Lucafrancesco Di Toma, and Ettore Sabadini.
20. Anti-C1q Autoantibodies in Lupus Nephritis: Prevalence and
Clinical Significance: Renato Alberto Sinico, Antonella Radice,
Masami Ikehata, Gaia Giammarresi, Caterina Corace, Girolamo Arrigo,
Bruna Bollini, and Maurizio Li Vecchi.
21. Anti-Endothelial Cell Antibodies Determination by Cyto-ELISA: A
Comparative Study between Three Cell Types Used as Substrates:
Nabil Sakly, Pejman Mirshahi, Jeannette Soria, Ibtissem Ghedira,
and Massoud Mirshahi.
22. Prevalence of IgG Anti--Fodrin Antibodies in Sjögren's
Syndrome: J L Ruiz-Tíscar, F J López-Longo, S Sánchez-Ramón, B
Santamaría, R Urrea, L Carreño, A Estecha, D Vigil, E
Fernández-Cruz, and M Rodríguez-Mahou.
23. Effective Use of Autoantibody Tests in the Diagnosis of
Systemic Autoimmune Disease: Robert Lyons, Sonali Narain, Cody
Nichols, Minoru Satoh, and Westley H. Reeves.
24. Human Antiganglioside Autoantibodies: Validation of ELISA:
Mepur H. Ravindranath, Sakunthala Muthugounder, Thiruverkadu S.
Saravanan, Naftali Presser, and Donald L. Morton.
25. A Deiminated Viral Peptide to Detect Antibodies in Rheumatoid
Arthritis: Giuseppina Merlini, Consuelo Anzilotti, Daniele
Chimenti, Cristina Tommasi, Stefano Bombardieri, and Paola
Migliorini.
26. Identification of Thrombin Antibodies in Patients with
Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Wolfgang Miesbach, Torsten Matthias, and
Inge Scharrer.
27. Antibodies against Erythropoietin and Other Protein-Based
Therapeutics: An Overview: Arno Kromminga and Huub Schellekens.
28. Diagnostic Value of Anti-F-Actin Antibodies in a French
Multicenter Study: P Chretien-Leprince, E Ballot, C andre, N O
Olsson, N Fabien, A Escande, F Oksman, S Dubuquoi, S Jego, J Goetz,
A Chevailler, M Sanmarco, R L Humbel, and C Johanet.
29. Paraneoplastic Neurological Antibodies: A Laboratory
Experience: Abid R. Karim, Richard G. Hughes, John B. Winer, Adrian
C. Williams, and Arthur R. Bradwell.
30. Determination of ANA Specificity Using the UltraPlexTM
Platform: Jodie Smith, David Onley, Caroline Garey, Stuart
Crowther, Nicholas Cahir, Adam Johanson, Sianie Painter, Grant
Harradence, Ricardo Davis, and Peter Swarbrick.
31. Association of Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies,
Anti-Citrullin Antibodies, and IgM and IgA Rheumatoid Factors with
Serological Parameters of Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis:
Alexander Greiner, Herbert Plischke, Herbert Kellner, and Rudolf
Gruber.
32. Detection of TT Virus in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory
Myopathies: Peter Gergely, Jr., Antal Blazsek, Katalin Dankó,
andrea Ponyi, and Gyula Poór.
33. Clinical Utility of the Anti-CCP Assay: Experiences with 700
Patients: Ulrich Sauerland, Heidemarie Becker, Matthias Seidel,
Heiko Schotte, Peter Willeke, Annette Schorat, Bernhard Schlüter,
Wolfram Domschke, and Markus Gaubitz.
34. Prevalence of Anticentromere F Protein Autoantibodies in 347
Patients with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Celine Bencimon, Gilles
Salles, Annick Moreira, Stephanie Guyomard, Bertrand Coiffier,
Jacques Bienvenu, and Nicole Fabien.
35. Comparison of Different Test Systems for Simultaneous
Autoantibody Detection in Connective Tissue Diseases: Petra
Eissfeller, Michael Sticherling, Dietmar Scholz, Kirsten Hennig,
Tanja Lüttich, Manfred Motz, and Arno Kromminga.
36. Evaluation of a Novel Line-Blot Immunoassay for the Detection
of Antibodies to Extractable Nuclear Antigens: J Damoiseaux, K
Boesten, J Giesen, J Austen, and J W Cohen Tervaert.
37. A Prospective Study of 1038 Pregnancies on the Predictive Value
of Anti-Annexin V Antibodies for Fetal Loss: N Bizzaro, A Antico, M
Musso, S Platzgummer, L Camogliano, R Tozzoli, and D Villalta.
38. Multiplexed Immunoassay for Detection of Rheumatoid Factors by
FIDISTM Technology: I Abreu, P Laroche, A Bastos, V Issert, M Cruz,
P Nero, J E Fonseca, J Branco, and J A Machado Caetano.
39. Antinuclear Antibodies in Domestic Animals: Laurel J.
Gershwin.
40. The Interaction of Pemphigus Autoimmunoglobulins with Epidermal
Cells: Activation of the Fas Apoptotic Pathway and the Use of
Caspase Activity for Pathogenicity Tests of Pemphigus Patients:
Marina Frusic-Zlotkin, Rochel Pergamentz, Beno Michel, Michael
David, Daniel Mimouni, François Brégégère, and Yoram Milner.
41. Evaluation of the BioPlexTM 2200 ANA Screen: Analysis of 510
Healthy Subjects: Incidence of Natural/Predictive Autoantibodies: O
Shovman, B Gilburd, O Barzilai, E Shinar, B Larida, G
Zandman-Goddard, S R Binder, and Y Shoenfeld.
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Part III: Infection and Autoimmunity:.
42. Autoimmunity and Coxsackievirus Infection in Primary Sjögren's
Syndrome: Antigoni Triantafyllopoulou and Haralampos M.
Moutsopoulos.
43. Human and Nonhuman Primate Lentiviral Infection and
Autoimmunity: Nattawat Onlamoon, Kovit Pattanapanyasat, and Aftab
A. Ansari.
44. Autoimmune Nature of Influenza Atherogenicity: Victor S.
Gurevich, Vladimir M. Pleskov, and Margarita V. Levaya.
45. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Multiple Sclerosis, and
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Are Probably Autoimmune Diseases Evoked
by Acinetobacter Bacteria: Alan Ebringer, Taha Rashid, and Clyde
Wilson
M. Eric Gershwin is the editor of Autoimmunity: Concepts and Diagnosis at the Cutting Edge, Volume 1050, published by Wiley. Yehuda Shoenfeld is an Israeli physician and autoimmunity researcher.
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