Research Catalog

Title

Molecular mimicry : infection inducing autoimmune disease / M.B.A. Oldstone (ed.).

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Oldstone, Michael B. A.

Description

166 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 0070-217X ; 296

Uniform Title

Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 296.

Subject

• Autoimmune diseases
• Mimicry (Chemistry)
• Allergy > Immunological aspects
• Autoimmune Diseases > ethnology
• Autoimmune Diseases > immunology
• Autoimmunity
• Infections > complications
• Molecular Mimicry > immunology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Molecular mimicry, microbial infection, and autoimmune disease : evolution of the concept / M.B.A. Oldstone -- The structural interactions between T cell receptors and MHC-peptide complexes place physical limits on self-nonself discrimination / K.W. Wucherpfennig -- A virus-induced molecular mimicry model of multiple sclerosis / J.K. Olson, A.M. Ercolini, and S.D. Miller -- Suppression of autoimmunity via microbial mimics of altered peptide ligands / L. Steinman, P.J. Utz, and W.H. Robinson -- Molecular and cellular mechanisms, pathogenesis, and treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes obtained through study of a transgenic model of molecular mimicry / M.B.A. Oldstone -- Trypanosoma cruzi-induced molecular mimicry and Chagas' disease / N. Gironès, H. Cuervo, and M. Fresno -- HTLV-1 induced molecular mimicry in neurological disease / S.M. Lee ... [et al.] -- Molecular mimicry : anti-DNA antibodies bind microbial and nonnucleic acid self-antigens / J.S. Rice ... [et al.] -- Chlamydia and antigenic mimicry / K. Bachmaier and J.M. Penninger.

ISBN

3540255974 (alk. paper)

LCCN

9783540255970

OCLC

• ocm62343419
• SCSB-5225975

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries