Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 2 - Number: 16 - October 15, 2003

Outstanding

Increased Prevalence of Autoimmune Phenomena and Greater Risk for Alloreactivity in Female Heart Transplant Recipients

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

Peptide-based treatment for autoimmune diseases: learning how to handle a double-edged sword

Series Introduction: Autoimmune diseases: are markers ready for prediction?

Autoimmune Disease Organs Specific

Immunization with neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor induces neurological autoimmune disease

Immunophenotypic profiles in families with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome

Interleukin-12 Receptor/STAT4 Signaling Is Required for the Development of Autoimmune Myocarditis in Mice by an Interferon-–Independent Pathway

Lethal autoimmune hemolytic anemia in CD47-deficient nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice

Markedly enhanced susceptibility to experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis in the absence of decay-accelerating factor protection

Meta-analysis of the association between low-affinity Fc receptor gene polymorphisms and hematologic and autoimmune diseases

Mixed warm and cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia: complete recovery after 2 courses of rituximab treatment

Multiantigen/multiepitope–directed immune-specific suppression of "complex autoimmune encephalomyelitis" by a novel protein product of a synthetic gene

Normal Th1 development following long-term therapeutic blockade of CD154-CD40 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Autoimmune markers

Series Introduction: Autoimmune diseases: are markers ready for prediction?

Autoimmune pathogenesis

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

Autoimmune therapy

Novel synthetic amino acid copolymers that inhibit autoantigen-specific T cell responses and suppress experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Peptide-based treatment for autoimmune diseases: learning how to handle a double-edged sword

P-glycoprotein targeting: a unique strategy to selectively eliminate immunoreactive T cells

Posttraumatic therapeutic vaccination with modified myelin self-antigen prevents complete paralysis while avoiding autoimmune disease

Autoimmune Vasculitis

Level of galactosylation determines cryoglobulin activity of murine IgG3 monoclonal rheumatoid factor

Autoimmunes Diseses

Induction of tolerance in autoimmune diseases by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: getting closer to a cure?

Infection, mimics, and autoimmune disease

Platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1/CD31) acts as a regulator of B-cell development, B-cell antigen receptor (BCR)-mediated activation, and autoimmune disease

Autoimmunity and Immunology

Human CD4+CD25+ cells: a naturally occurring population of regulatory T cells

Biological therapy

Protection Against Autoimmune Myocarditis by Gene Transfer of Interleukin-10 by Electroporation

Rituximab treatment results in impaired secondary humoral immune responsiveness

Genetic

HLA-DR15 (DR2) is overrepresented in myelodysplastic syndrome and aplastic anemia and predicts a response to immunosuppression in myelodysplastic syndrome

Inflammation

Induced disruption of the transforming growth factor beta type II receptor gene in mice causes a lethal inflammatory disorder that is transplantable

Organs specific autoimmune disease

Prediction of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice by quantification of autoreactive T cells in peripheral blood

Presented antigen from damaged pancreatic ß cells activates autoreactive T cells in virus-mediated autoimmune diabetes

Reversal of established autoimmune diabetes by restoration of endogenous ß cell function

Transplantation

Increased Prevalence of Autoimmune Phenomena and Greater Risk for Alloreactivity in Female Heart Transplant Recipients

Mixed peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for autoimmune disease in BXSB/MpJ mice