Immune Response and the Eye

by Streilein, J. Wayne

• ISBN13: 9783805568937
• ISBN10: 3805568932
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: S Karger Ag

Summary

In this book, the physiologic bases of ocular immune privilege and the distinctive systemic immune responses elicited by eye derived antigens are described. Several chapters discuss the pathogeneses of these disorders which arise from infections, autoimmunity, and neoplasms. Finally, chapters devoted to corneal and retinal transplantation describe attempts to exploit ocular immune privilege to promote graft survival and thereby cure blindness.
Ophthalmologists, both clinicians and physician scientists, general and tumor immunologists, transplantation biologists and anyone seeking to understand the immunopathogenic diseases that threaten vision will appreciate the information presented in this book.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: All for Saving the Visual Axis	p. 1
Regional Immunity and Occular Immune Privilege	p. 11
Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Allergic Conjunctivitis	p. 39
Anterior Chamber-Associated Immune Deviation	p. 59
Ocular Immunosuppressive Microenvironment	p. 72
Mechanisms of Intraocular Inflammation	p. 90
Immunopathogenesis of Viral Ocular Infections	p. 120
Immune Privilege, Tumors, and the Eye	p. 137
Immunopathogenic Mechanisms in Intraocular Inflammation	p. 159
Immunobiology and Immunopathology of Corneal Transplantation	p. 186
Retinal Transplantation	p. 207
Author Index	p. 220
Subject Index	p. 221
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