Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Illustrated Overview of the Prevalence and Clinical Symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(Syuichi Koarada, Yuri Sadanaga, Natsumi Nagao, Satoko Tashiro, Rie Suematsu, Akihide Ohta and Yoshifumi Tada, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University School of Medicine, Saga, Japan)
Chapter 2. The Pathophysiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(Mariana Postal and Simone Appenzeller, State University of Campinas, SP, Brazil and others)
Chapter 3. MBL and MBL Genotypes in SLE
(Zornitsa Kamenarska, Maria Hristova and Lyubomir Dourmishev, Molecular Medicine Centre, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, and others)
Chapter 4. Novel Biological Activities of Autoantibodies as the Potential Markers of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(Yuriy Kit, Iryna Magorivska, Valentyna Chopyak, Yaroslav Tolstiak, Rostyslav Bilyy and Rostyslav Stoika, Institute of Cell Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine, and others)
Chapter 5. Cytokines in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Clinical Aspects and Prognostics
(P.R.E. Souza, J. De Azevêdo Silva, N.M.J. Asano and P. Sandrin-Garcia, Laboratory of Genetic Biochemistry, University Federal of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Chapter 6. Prognosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(Nailú Angélica Sinicato and Simone Appenzeller, State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Chapter 7. Autoantibody-Producing RP105-Negative B Cells in Humans and a Murine Model of Lupus Erythematosus
(Syuichi Koarada and Yoshifumi Tada, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University School of Medicine, Saga, Japan)
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