B Cell Tolerance to Make It and How to Break It -- Breaking Ignorance: The Case of the Brain -- Naturally Arising Foxp3-Expressing CD25+CD4+ Regulatory T Cells in Self-Tolerance and Autoimmune Disease -- Sex Hormones and SLE: Influencing the Fate of Autoreactive B Cells -- Innate (Over)immunity and Adaptive Autoimmune Disease -- Can Unresolved Infection Precipitate Autoimmune Disease? -- The Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases: Inborn Errors of the Innate Immune System -- Inefficient Clearance of Dying Cells and Autoreactivity -- The Importance of T Cell Interactions with Macrophages in Rheumatoid Cytokine Production -- T Cell Activation as Starter and Motor of Rheumatic Inflammation -- Signalling Pathways in B Cells: Implications for Autoimmunity -- Immunological Memory Stabilizing Autoreactivity -- Genetics of Autoimmune Diseases: A Multistep Process

Different from other resources, this volume offers a broad appeal to microbiologists, immunologists, and infectious disease specialists on Autoimmune Diseases The volume covers topics such as skin and alopecia, Kidney, Liver, Paraneoplastic, Resolution of inflammation, Cardiovascular/systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis, Gut, Regulatory lymphocytes T, B, other and Rheumatic Disease The volume is written by internationally renowned authors who are authorities in their respective fields