"This volume is the result of a conference entitled Immunology of Diabetes: The fifth Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society, which was held on February 14-16, 2001 in Madras, India"--Contents page. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Infection and autoimmunity -- Antiinfection immunity and autoimmunity / by Rolf M. Zinkernagel -- Viruses and diabetes / by Elmar Jaeckel, Michael Manns, and Matthias von Herrath -- Theiler's virus-mediated autoimmunity : local presentation of CNS antigens and epitope spreading / by S. Mark Tompkins, Kevin G. Fuller, and Stephen D. Miller -- The role of the gut immune system in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes -- The gut immune system and type 1 diabetes / by Outi Vaarala -- Oral tolerance, systemic immunoregulation, and autoimmunity / by Stephan Strobel -- Towards a cure for type 1 diabetes -- Use of in vitro-generated, stem cell-derived islets to cure type 1 diabetes : how close are we? / by A.B. Peck ... [et al.] -- A view on beta cell transplantation in diabetes / by Daniel Pipeleers ... [et al.] -- Regulatory natural killer T cells protect against spontaneous and recurrent type 1 diabetes / by Shayan Sharif ... [et al.] -- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) -- Beta cell rest and recovery--does it bring patients with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults to euglycemia? / by Jerry P. Palmer -- Autoantibody profile and epitope mapping in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults / by Alberto Falorni and Filippo Calcinaro -- Genetics of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults / by C.B. Sanjeevi ... [et al.] -- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults / by Mona Landin-Olsson -- Insulin intervention to preserve [beta] cells in slowly progressive insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus / by Tetsuro Kobayashi ... [et al.].
Series:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 958
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