Published December, 2013
By Hisanori Umehara, Kazuichi Okazaki, Shigeyuki Kawa, Mitsuhiro Kawano and John H. Stone
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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IgG4-related disease is a new systemic disease that has only recently been identified and characterized. A wealth of radiological and histopathological images helps clinicians to understand its characteristics in various organs as well as their clinical and basic medical backgrounds.

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Published December, 2013
By Hans D. Ochs, C. I. Edvard Smith, Jennifer M. Puck, Hans D. Ochs, MD, Dr.med, C. I. Edvard Smith, PhD and Jennifer M. Puck, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This third edition of Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases provides readers with the historic and scientific background, clinical presentations, immunologic characteristics, and the molecular/genetic underpinnings of this rapidly enlarging class of diseases.

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Published December, 2013
By Diana Boraschi and Albert Duschl
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Discusses several issues that toxicologists and regulators need to know: identification of endpoints that are relevant for assessing hazard, evaluating impact on immunologically frail populations, and how to evaluate chronic/cumulative effects.

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Published December, 2013
By Lorenzo Emmi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Rare Diseases of the Immune System
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Behcet's syndrome can reasonably be considered a unique entity among diseases of the immune system for several reasons: It has specific features and, uniquely among the immune system pathologies, represents a link between autoimmune diseases, systemic vasculitis, and autoinflammatory diseases.

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Published December, 2013
By Kenneth Palmer, Yuri Gleba and Kenneth E. Palmer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The discipline is no longer exclusively in the domain of academics-there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as the platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.

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Published December, 2013
By Friedemann Kiefer, Schulte Stefan and Stefan Schulte-Merker
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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The book is intended for professors and researchers in vascular biology, angiogenesis research and developmental biology. It furthermore offers an excellent basis for entry level researchers and newcomers to this field, as well as for teachers, graduate students, advanced science and medical students.

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Published December, 2013
By Erika Mutius, Monika Gappa, Ernst Eber, Urs Frey and Erika von Mutius
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Luckenlos prasentiert das Buch das fundierte Spezialwissen zu Atemwegserkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen von den respiratorischen Erkrankungen des Fruh- und Neugeborenen bis hin zu Asthma, obstruktiven Atemwegserkrankungen, Pneumonie und seltenen Lungenerkrankungen.

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Published December, 2013
By M. Eric Gershwin, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Pier-Luigi Meroni and M. E. Gershwin
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Ltd)
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Suitable for anyone involved in the field of autoimmune diseases, this book covers scientific advances, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic technologies.

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Published December, 2013
By Munther A. Khamashta, Manuel Ramos-Casals and Xavier Bosch
Publisher: Springer (Springer Basel)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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This book provides a detailed overview of B-cell directed therapies in patients with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjoegren syndrome, ANCA-associated vasculitis and cryoglobulinemia.

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Published December, 2013
By Zoltan Nagy and Zoltan A. Nagy
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Describes, analyzes, and conceptualizes seminal events and discoveries in immunology in the last third of the 20th century. This book provides an introduction to topics including immunological specificity, antibody diversity, monoclonal antibodies, major histocompatibility complex, antigen presentation, and T cell biology.

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