The Autoimmune Diseases

Noel R. Rose. Residence: Baltimore, Maryland. Affiliation: John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Four decades of self and non-self - reflection on autoimmunity and tolerance, G.J.V. Nossal; basis and mechanisms of self-tolerance, A. Basten; animal models of autoimmunity - spontaneous and induced, P.E. Bigazzi; transgenic models of peripheral t-cell self-tolerance and autoimmunity, J.F.A.P. Miller; genetic influences - MHC, G. Nepom and W.W. Kwok; non-MHC genetic contributions to autoimmune diseases, B.L. Kotzin et al; environmental determinants of autoimmune disease, A. Rosen and L. Casciola-Rosen; infection and autoimmune disease, L.C. Harrison and G.J. McColl; antigenic determinants involved in induction and propagation of autoimmunity, K.D. Moudgil and E.E. Sercarz; antigen receptors, E. Heber-Katz; molecular mimicry, R.S. Fujinami; t-helper cell subsets (TH1, TH2) and cytokines in autoimmunity, S. Romagnani; apoptosis, autoantigens and autoimmunity, C.A. Casiano and E.M. Tan; co-stimulation and the regulation of autoimmunity, K.J. Lafferty and Gazada; blood cells - autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, B.C. Gilliland; systemic lupus erythematosus, M. Reichlin; antiphospholipid/cofactor syndromes, D. Alarcon-Segovia and A.R. Cabral; systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), M.E. Gershwin and C. Galperin; rheumatoid arthritis, J.S. Sundy and B.F. Haynes; Sjogren's syndrome, H.M. Moutsopoulos et al; autoimmune thyroid disease, A.P. Weetman; diabetes, A. Lemmark and S. Bieg; autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anaemia, B.-H. Toh et al; inflammatory bowel and coeliac disease, D.E. Elliott et al; autoimmune diseases of the liver, M.M. Manns and L. Obermayer-Straub; cutaneous autoimmune diseases, A. Diaz et al; autoimmune diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, B.G.W. Arnason; autoimmune disease in the kidney, L.C. Racusen; autoimmune cardiovascular disease, B. Maisch; myasthenia gravis, D.B. Drachman; autoimmune diseases of muscle, P.N. Hollingsworth et al; autoimmune diseases of the testis and the ovary, K.S.K. Tung; vasculitis, J.C. Jennette and R.J. Falk; adrenal autoimmunity and the autoimmune polyglandular syndromes, types I-III, Addison's disease, hypoparathyroidism, hypophysitis, N.K. Maclaren et al; autoimmune diseases of the eye, M.H. Friedlaender and H. Fujishima; autoimmune diseases - cameos, curiosities and shadowlands, I.R. Mackay; aging and autoimmunity, M.E. Weksler et al; paraneoplastic autoimmune syndomes, G.J. Anhalt; autoimmune derangements in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, F. Silvestris et al; diagnosis of autoimmune disease, R.L. Dawkins et al; novel therapeutic approaches to autoimmunity, H. Wekerle and R. Hohfeld.