Autoimmune Disorders: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment : Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells. The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks it. The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression--medication which decreases the immune response. This book presents current research in the study of autoimmune disorders with a focus on autoimmune liver diseases; Graves hyperthyroidism; system lupus erythematosus; Behcet's disease; and Sjogren's syndrome. Autoimmune liver diseases / Ghulam Abbas, Keith D. Lindor Immunopathological events in an experimental autoimmune kidney disease and how those events can be terminated to regain tolerance to self / Arpad Zsigmond Barabas ... [et al.] Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe autoimmune diseases : time for a reappraisal / Alberto M. Marmont Thyroid arterial embolization for the treatment of Graves : hyperthyroidism / Bulang Gao ... [et al.] New targets and approaches to autoimmune-induced salivary hypofunction / Douglas Dickinson ... [et al.] Systemic lupus erythematosus : definition, pathogenesis, and treatment / Mariana Postal, Simone Appenzeller Cytomegalovirus-induced autoimmunity / Stefania Varani, Maria Paola Landini, Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér Behçet's disease : symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment Mariana Postal, Simone Appenzeller Immunomodulators as therapeutic strategies for managing multiple sclerosis / E.W. Brenu ... [et al.] Premenstrual syndrome : a disease with an autoimmune component? / Miranda A. Farage ... [et al.] The primary target antigenic site in Heymann nephritis is the renal proximal convoluted tubules : brush border associated zone of cells / Arpad Zsigmond Barabas ... [et al.] Dysregulation of autoimmunity caused by silica exposure : fas-mediated apoptosis in T lymphocytes derived from silicosis patients / Hiroaki Hayashi ... [et al.] Unusual renal localization of vasculitis in Sjögren's syndrome : a clinical case report / Anna Bazso ... [et al.].