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Autoimmune Neurological Disease

Author: Michael P. Pender
Published: January 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521461138
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 377
 
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This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the immunological aspects of autoimmune neurological disease. These diseases include common conditions such as multiple sclerosis, the Guillain Barre syndrome and myasthenia gravis. The volume includes introductory chapters on antigen recognition and self-nonself recognition, and neuroimmunology, and chapters on specific diseases.The book is suitable for clinicians and neurologists managing patients with these diseases, and for immunologists, neuroscientists and neurologists investigating the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of these disorders.


Table of Contents:


Preface
1 Antigen recognition and self-non-self discrimination 1
2 An introduction to neuroimmunology 14
3 Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis 26
4 Multiple sclerosis 89
5 Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis 155
6 The stiff-man syndrome 166
7 Experimental autoimmune neuritis 177
8 The Guillain-Barre syndrome and acute dysautonomia 202
9 Chronic immune-mediated neuropathies 229
10 Autoimmune diseases of the neuromuscular junction and other disorders of the motor unit 257
11 Inflammatory myopathies and experimental autoimmune myositis 304
12 Paraneoplastic neurological disorders 327
13 Neurological complications of connective tissue diseases and vasculitis 345
Index 361


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