edited by Carlos López-Larrea, Roberto Díaz-Peña
Austin, Tex. :
Landes Bioscience,
c2009
1 online resource (xxv, 314 p.) :
ill. (some col.)
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;
v. 649
Includes bibliographical references and index
Clinical assessment in the spondyloarthropathies / Ruth Wittoek and Herman Mielants -- Imaging in spondyloarthritis / Walter P. Maksymowych -- Spondyloarthritis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) and chondrocalcinosis / Jácome Brügues Armas, Ana Rita Couto, and Bruno Filipe Bettencourt -- The enthesis organ concept and its relevance to the spondyloarthropathies / Michael Benjamin and Dennis McGonagle -- Synovial and mucosal immunopathology in spondyloarthritis / Bernard Vandooren, Paul P. Tak, and Dominique Baeten -- Bone loss in the spondyloarthropathies : role of osteoclast, RANKL, RANK, and OPG in the spondyloarthropathies / Allen P. Anandarajah and Edward M. Schwarz -- RANKL/RANK as key factors for osteoclast development and bone loss in arthropathies / Andreas Leibbrandt and Josef M. Penninger -- Bone formation versus bone resorption in ankylosing spondylitis / Georg Schett -- Biomarkers in spondyloarthropathies / Chun-Hsiung Chen, David Tak Yan Yu, and Chung-Tei Chou -- Therapy of spondyloarthritides / Jürgen Braun -- Genomewide screens in ankylosing spondylitis / Matthew A. Brown -- Subtypes of HLA-B27 : history and implications in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis / John D. Reveille -- Implications of structural and thermodynamic studies of HLA-B27 subtypes exhibiting differential association with ankylosing spondylitis / Andreas Ziegler ... [et al.] -- HLA-B27-bound peptide repertoires : their nature, origin and pathogenetic relevance / José A. López de Castro -- Biochemical features of HLA-B27 and antigen processing / Simon J. Powis, Susana G. Santos and Antony N. Antoniou -- HLA-B27 misfolding and spondyloarthropathies / Robert A. Colbert ... [et al.] -- HLA-B27 and host-pathogen interaction / Anna S. Sahlberg, Kaisa Granfors and Markus A. Penttinen -- Animal models of spondyloarthritis / Joel D. Taurog -- T-cell responses against viral and self-epitopes and HLA-B27 subtypes differentially associated with ankylosing spondylitis / Maria T. Fiorillo and Rosa Sorrentino -- Dendritic cell : T-cell interactions in spondyloarthritis / J.S. Hill Gaston ... [et al.] -- The role of B27 heavy chain dimer immune receptor interactions in spondyloarthritis / Simon Kollnberger and Paul Bowness -- KIR genes and their role in spondyloarthropathies / Roberto Díaz-Peña, Miguel Ángel Blanco-Gelaz and Carlos López-Larrea -- Innate immunity of spondyloarthritis : the role of toll-like receptors / Robert D. Inman