Immunological Diseases of Liver and Gut Book

1	The liver as an immune organ	3
2	Immunogenetics of liver disease	8
3	Lipotoxicity and apoptosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	30
4	Fibrogenesis, hepatic stellate cells and the immune system	36
5	Molecular characterization of autoantigens in autoimmune liver diseases	42
6	Immune mechanisms of viral clearance and pathogenesis of hepatitis C	57
7	Immune aspects of pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease	72
8	Aetiology of primary biliary cirrhosis	78
9	Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndromes	92
10	Primary sclerosing cholangitis	111
11	Immunological mechanisms of liver allograft rejection	122
12	Recurrence of autoimmune liver disease after liver transplantation	128
13	Human hepatic stem cells - potential for the future	144
14	Mucosal immunity, intestinal microflora and inflammatory bowel disease
15	Genes and immunopathology	171
16	Defensins, innate immunity and the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease	172
17	Progress of knowledge of immunopathogenesis in coeliac disease	178
18	Impact of immunodeficiency on immunological homeostasis in the gut	180
19	Pathological versus clinical differential diagnosis in inflammatory bowel disease	213
20	Refractory sprue - what it is and what to do	215
21	Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis : distinct disorders or part of the spectrum of inflammatory bowel disease?	219
22	Predictive factors of the course and therapeutic response in inflammatory bowel disease	234
23	Efficacy and limits of immunomodulators in inflammatory bowel disease : azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine, methotrexate and mycophenolate mofetil	249
24	Does 6-thioguanine therapy represent a new promising therapeutic modality?	261
25	Anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy in clinical practice : what is advance and what is not?	267
26	New possibilities in anticytokine therapy for inflammatory bowel disease	271
27	Medical therapy of inflammatory bowel disease : current state and perspectives in the future	280