Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 2 - Number: 45 - May 19, 2002

Outstanding

Autoimmunity Caused by Disruption of Central T Cell Tolerance

Retinopathies Associated with Antiretinal Antibodies

Anti-Endothelial Cell Antibodies in Systemic Sclerosis

Multiple immuno-regulatory defects in type-1 diabetes

Articles

Celiac Disease-Associated Autoimmune Endocrinopathies

Antibodies to an Epitope from the Cha Human Autoantigen Are Markers of Chagas' Disease

Retinopathies Associated with Antiretinal Antibodies

Antibodies to 60-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein and Outer Membrane Protein 2 of Chlamydia pneumoniae in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Anti-Endothelial Cell Antibodies in Systemic Sclerosis

Mechanisms of Drug-induced Lupus II. T Cells Overexpressing Lymphocyte Function-associated Antigen 1 Become Autoreactive and Cause a Lupuslike Disease in Syngeneic Mice

JM2, encoding a fork head related protein, is mutated in X-linked autoimmunity allergic disregulation syndrome

Role of perforin in controlling B-cell hyperactivity and humoral autoimmunity

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

Autologous dendritic cells transfected with prostate-specific antigen RNA stimulate CTL responses against metastatic prostate tumors

Multiple immuno-regulatory defects in type-1 diabetes

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

The regulation of T cell homeostasis and autoimmunity by T cell derived LIGHT

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- haploinsufficiency enhances B cell proliferative responses and exacerbates experimentally induced arthritis

Organ-specific autoimmunity in mice whose T cell repertoire is shaped by a single antigenic peptide

Requirement for endocytic antigen processing and influence of invariant chain and H-2M deficiencies in CNS autoimmunity

Commentaries

CD40L in autoimmunity and mucosally induced tolerance

Perspectives and Editorial

Thyroid autoimmunity

Autoantibodies as reporters identifying aberrant cellular mechanisms in tumorigenesis

Mechanisms for the induction of autoimmunity by infectious agents

Reciprocal regulation of lymphocyte activation by tyrosine kinases and phosphatases

Autoantibodies as predictors of disease

Reviews and Trials

Allogeneic Hematolymphoid Microchimerism and Prevention of Autoimmune Disease in the Rat

Tumor Immunity and Autoimmunity Induced by Immunization with Homologous DNA

Loci Predisposing to Autoimmunity in MRL-Fas lpr and C57BL/6-Fas lpr Mice

Autoimmunity Associated with TGF-1-Deficiency in Mice Is Dependent on MHC Class II Antigen Expression

Autoimmunity Caused by Disruption of Central T Cell Tolerance

Intracellular Demonstration of Active TGF1 in B Cells and Plasma Cells of Autoimmune Mice

Requirement for Increased IL-10 in the Development of B-1 Lymphoproliferative Disease in a Murine Model of CLL

Summary

Major histocompatibility complex class I chain related (MIC) A gene, TNFa microsatellite alleles and TNFB alleles in juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients from Latvia

Experimental Chronic Chagas' Disease Myocarditis is an Autoimmune Disease Preventable by Induction of Immunological Tolerance to Myocardial Antigens

An Organic CD4 Inhibitor Reduces the Clinical and Pathological Symptoms of Acute Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis

Treatment of autoimmune diabetes recurrence in non-obese diabetic mice by mouse interferon-BETA in combination with an analogue of 1ALPHA,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D4

Up-regulation of MMP-8 and MMP-9 activity in the BALB/c mouse spinal cord correlates with the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis