The Molecular Aspects of Autoimmunity

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
CONTRIBUTORS, Pages vii-x
PREFACE, Page xi, NADIR R. FARID, CONSTANTIN A. BONA
THE EXPRESSION OF LY-1 AND IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE GENE FAMILIES IN HYBRIDOMAS PRODUCING AUTOANTIBODIES OF VARIOUS SPECIFICITIES, Pages 1-27, Raoul Mayer, Habib Zaghouani, Azad Kaushik, Kuppuswamy Kasturi, Vincenzo Fidanza, Constantin Bona
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN IgM AUTOANTIBODIES, Pages 29-39, Fernando R. Goñi, Pojen P. Chen, Blas Frangione
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF HUMAN AUTOANTIBODIES, Pages 41-58, POJEN P. CHEN
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN ANTI-DNA ANTIBODIES, Pages 59-72, Katherine A. Siminovitch
FROM IDIOTYPIC EXPRESSION OF LUPUS ANTI-DNA ANTIBODIES TO DIVERSIFICATION OF Ig VARIABLE REGION GENES, Pages 73-89, Moncef ZOUALI
MURINE AUTOANTIBODIES SPECIFIC FOR BROMELINIZED RED BLOOD CELLS USE A RESTRICTED SET OF GENETIC ELEMENTS AND THEIR HEAVY CHAINS DEFINE A NOVEL VH FAMILY, Pages 91-105, Jean-Claude Jaton, Luc Reininger
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MURINE LUPUS-ASSOCIATED HUMORAL ANTI-SELF RESPONSE, Pages 107-123, Reinhard Kofler, Frank J. Dixon, Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos
ESTABLISHMENT OF V-GENE REPERTOIRES IN NORMAL MICE, Pages 125-128, Dan Holmberg, Antonio Freitas
CHARACTERIZATION OF A REGULATORY IDIOTOPE BY ANTIBODY ENGINEERING, Pages 129-138, Maurizio Sollazzo, Daniele Castiglia, Rosario Billetta, Maurizio Zanetti
EPIBODIES IN THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR, Pages 139-154, Donard S. Dwyer, Joachim Bartels
INTERSPECIES IDIOTYPES ON ANTI-Sm ANTIBODIES, Pages 155-159, Howard Dang, Masami Takei, Norman Talal
SPECIFICITIES AND IDIOTYPY OF ANTI-HISTONE H1 AUTOANTIBODIES, Pages 161-173, Marc Monestier, Thomas M. Fasy
EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF T CELL TOLERANCE, Pages 175-187, Lorise C. Gahring, William O. Weigle
GENOMIC AND EXPRESSED T CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR REPERTOIRE IN AUTOIMMUNE MURINE MODELS, Pages 189-217, Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos, Paul A. Singer
STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR AND THE BIOCHEMICAL BASIS FOR ITS REGULATION, Pages 219-229, Dean W. Ballard, Marion R. Fung, Ernst Böhnlein, Warner C. Greene
VIRUSES AS A TRIGGERING FACTOR OF AUTOIMMUNE TYPE I DIABETES, Pages 231-240, Ji-Won Yoon, Sung-Hee Ihm, Robert G. McArthur
MAPPING SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS INTO A CONFORMATIONALLY EQUIVALENT REGION OF MHC CLASS II MOLECULES ENCODED BY DIFFERENT ALLELES, Pages 241-263, Robert Winchester
IN VITRO MODEL SYSTEMS FOR THE STUDY OF THYROID AUTOIMMUNITY: Regulation of rat MHC class II antigens, Pages 265-275, T.F. Davies, W. Hirose, D.S. Neufeld
THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF MHC ASSOCIATION WITH DISEASE, Pages 277-288, Nadir R. Farid
BASIC ROLE FOR ANTI-IDIOTYPE AUTOANTIBODIES IN THE PREVENTION OF EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS, Pages 289-298, C. Bédin, C. Roubaty, B. Texier, H. Tang, M.A. Franco, J. Charreire
Index, Pages 299-305