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Carlos López-Larrea
Hospital Central de Asturias
Oveido, Spain

This book will be published in September of 2008

List price: TBA



ISBN: TBA
Pub date: 2008-09-01

Table of contents

Planned List of Topics

General Overview
Carlos Lopez-Larrea

Clinical assessment in the spondyloarthropathies
Herman Mielants

Imaging in SpA and AS
Walter Maksymowych

The enthesitis organ concept and SpA disorders
Mike Benjamin

The role of Anti-TNF therapy in SpA
Jürgen Braun

Biomarkers for monitoring immunotherapy in AS
David Yu

Synovial and mucosal immunopathology in SpA
Dominique Baeten

HLA-B27 diversity and AS
John D. Reveille

Genome wide-screen in AS
Mathew Brown

HLA-B27: Structural and pathogenic issues
Andreas Ziegler and Barbara Ziegler-Uchanska

HLA-B27, peptides and AS
J.A. Lopez de Castro

Biochemical features of HLA-B27 and antigen processing
S.J. Powis and Antony Antoniou

B27 misfolding and AS
Robert A. Colbert

Animal models of SpA
Joel Taurog

Dendritic cell: T cell interactions in spondyloarthritis
Jane Goodall, Lorna Jarvis and J.S.H. Gaston

HLA-B27 and host-microbe interaction
Kaisa Grandfors

T cell responses against viral and self-antigens
Rosa Sorrentino

Osteoclast precursor in SpA
Edward M. Schwarz and Allen Anandarajah

RANKL/RANK as key factors for osteoclast development
and bone loss in arthropathies
Josef M. Penninger and Andreas Leibrandt

Bone formation vs. bone resorption in AS
George Schelt

KIR receptors, B27 diversity and disease
M.A. Blanco-Gelaz and Carlos Lopez-Larrea

NK receptor, HLA-B27 recognition and SpA
Simon Kollnberger

Innate immunity of disease: Toll-like receptors and SpA
Robert Inman