Liver immunology : principles and practice /
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Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction. A short primer on fundamental immunology / Cliona O'Farrelly and Derek g. Doherty
- Role and function of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells / Percy A. Knolle
- Innate immune mechanisms in the liver / Cliona O'Farrelly and Derek G. Doherty
- Antigen processing and presentation in the liver / Masanori Abe and Angus W. Thomson
- Adpative immunity in the liver / James D. Gorham
- Hepatic NK, NKT, and T cells / Golo Ahlenstiel and Barbara Rehermann
- Cytokines in liver health and disease / Pietro Invernizzi ... [et al.]
- Prevalence and significance of autoantibodies in acute and chronic liver diseases and hepatocelular carcinoma / Christian P. Strassburg and Michael P. Manns
- The role of inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis / Wajahat Z. Mehal and Scott L. Friedman
- Clinical use of immunopathology techniques in liver diseases / Chen Liu and James M. Crawford
- Tumor immunology: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and metastatic neoplasms / Christopher L. Bowlus
- Pt. II. Bacterial, parasitic, and viral infections of the liver. Innate and adaptive immune responses to bacterial and parasite infections: clinicopathological consequences / Valentina Medici ... [et al.]
- Immune response to Hepatitis A and E viruses: role in disease pathogenesis and viral elimination / Johannes Hadem and Michael P. Manns
- Role of the immune response in Hepatitis B: determinants of severity, chronicity, and response to antiviral therapy / Antonio Bertoletti, Patrick Kennedy, and Adam J. Gehring
- Immune responses in acute and chronic Hepatitis C: implications for prognosis and therapy / Heiner Wedemeyer, Markus Cornberg, and Michael P. Manns
- Immunopathogenesis of extrahepatic manifestations in HAV, HBV, and HCV infections: importance of recognition and therapy / Sven Pischke ... [et al.]
- Pt. III. Autoimmune liver diseases. Immunogenetics of autoimmune liver disease: risk factors for susceptibility and progression / Peter Tickell donaldson
- Primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune cholangitis / Carlo Selmi ... [et al.]
- Sclerosing cholangitis: primary and secondary / Sue Cullen and Roger Chapman
- Autoimmune hepatitis / Diego Vergani and Giorgina Mieli-Vergani
- Unique aspects of autoimmune hepatitis in children / Giorgina Mieli-Vergani and Diego Vergani
- Overlap syndromes of autoimmune hepatitis with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis / Ulrich Beuers and Christian Rust
- Animal models of autoimmune liver diseases / Markus Biburger and Gisa Tiegs
- Pt. IV. Alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases. The immune response in the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease / Lynell W. Klassen and Geoffrey M. Thiele
- Immunomodulation therapy for alcoholic hepatitis: rationale and efficacy / Robert O'Shea and Arthur J. McCullough
- Role of immune response in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: evidence in human and animal studies / Liu Yang and Anna Mae Diehl
- Pt. V. Acute liver failure. Mechanisms of acute liver failure / christian Trautwein and Alexander Koch
- Pt. VI. Hepatotoxicity of medications. Immune mechanisms in drug-induced hepatotoxicity: therapeutic implications / Zhang-Xu Liu and Neil Kaplowitz
- Acute and chronic liver diseases induced by drugs or xenobiotics / Frank N.A.M. van Pelt, Michelle A. Carey, and John B. Carey
- Pt. VII. Transplantation. clinical use of immunosuppressive drugs to control the immune response / John M. Vierling
- Hepatic complications of hematopoietic cell transplantation / Howard M. Shulman and George B. McDonald
- Acute and chronic rejection of the liver allograft / James Neuberger
- Immunological tolerance in allo- and xenografts / Aftab A. Ansari and Kovit Pattanapanyasat
- Autoimmune diseases in transplanted livers / Hiromi Ishibashi ... [et al.]
- Immunopathogenesis and outcomes of recurrent Hepatitis C / James R. Burton, Jr., Lucy Golden-Mason, and Hugo R. Rosen.