Title | The Role of Micro-organisms in Non-infectious Diseases [electronic resource] / edited by Renรฉ R. P. de Vries, Irun R. Cohen, Jon J. van Rood |
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Imprint | London : Springer London, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1796-4 |
Descript | XV, 188 p. online resource |
Introduction: HLA, Plagues and People -- Section I: Autoimmune and Immunopathological Diseases -- 1 Streptococci and Rheumatic Heart Disease -- 2 Viruses and Myocarditis -- 3 The Role of Environmental Factors in Modulating Insulin Dependent Diabetes -- 4 The Role of the Microflora in Graft-versus-Host Disease After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation -- Section II: Malignancies -- 5 Human T Lymphotropic Retroviruses: Pathological Consequences of Infection -- 6 Viruses, Oncogenes and Cancer -- 7 Epstein-Barr Virus Infection and Cancer -- Section III: Mechanisms and their Implications for Prevention and Therapy -- 8 Chronic Infection, Immunopathology and Immune Suppression -- 9 What Drives Autoantibodies? The Evidence From Spontaneous Human Autoimmune Diseases -- 10 What are the Immunogens That Incite the Autoantibodies of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus? -- 11 Inappropriate HLA Molecule Expression in Epithelial Cells: Relevance for Human Autoimmunity -- 12 Molecular Mimicry in Autoimmune Disease -- 13 A Heat Shock Protein, Molecular Mimicry and Autoimmunity -- 14 What Do Human T Cells See in the Mycobacterial 65 kDa Heat Shock Protein?