Naturally Occurring Antibodies (NAbs)

Section I. NAbs in Tissue Repair and Tissue Homeostasis

1. Naturally Occurring IgM Antibodies to Oxidation-Specific Epitopes
Christoph J. Binder

2. Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies to Apoptotic Cells
Keith B. Elkon, Gregg J. Silverman

3. Naturally Occurring Antibodies Directed Against Carbohydrate Tumor Antigens
Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez

4. Naturally Occurring Antibodies as Therapeutics for Neurologic Disease
Arthur E. Warrington, Virginia Keulen, Larry R. Pease, Moses Rodriguez

5. Nature and Nurture of Catalytic Antibodies
Sudhir Paul, Stephanie A. Planque, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Carl V. Hanson, Richard J. Massey

6. Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies in Mediating Clearance of Senescent Red Blood Cells
Hans U. Lutz

7. Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies Against β-Amyloid
Jan-Philipp Bach, Richard Dodel

8. Multi-Faceted Role of Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies in Fighting Pathogens
Hicham Bouhlal, Srini Kaveri

Section II. NAbs Modulating and Regulating Cells of the Immune System

9. Immunoregulation by Naturally Occurring and Disease-Associated Autoantibodies
Claus H. Nielsen, Klaus Bendtzen

10. Modulation of Dendritic Cells and Regulatory T Cells by Naturally Occurring Antibodies
Jaap Kwekkeboom

11. Control of B Cells Expressing Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies
Jean Louis Pasquali, Thierry Martin

12. Granulocyte Death Regulation by Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies
Stephan Gunten, Hans-Uwe Simon

Section III. NAbs Can Induce Diseases When Compartment Borders Break or Proteases Degrade IgG

13. Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies Mediate Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Tissue Injury
Sherry D. Fleming

14. How Immune Complexes from Certain IgG NAbs and Any F(ab′)2 Can Mediate Excessive Complement Activation
Hans U. Lutz

Section IV. Unique Properties of NAbs

15. The Natural Autoantibody Repertoire in Newborns and Adults
Asaf Madi, Sharron Bransburg-Zabary, Dror Y. Kenett, Eshel Ben-Jacob, Irun R. Cohen

16. Antibody Polyspecificity
Jordan D. Dimitrov, Anastas D. Pashov, Tchavdar L. Vassilev

17. Positive and Negative Selection of Natural Autoreactive B Cells
Richard R. Hardy, Kyoko Hayakawa

18. Naturally Occurring Antibodies/Autoantibodies in Polyclonal Immunoglobulin Concentrates
Peter J. Späth, Hans U. Lutz

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Antibodies, Biomedicine general