TY - CHAP AU - Kouichi Hirayama AU - Miho Nagai ED - Mourad Aribi Y1 - 2017-03-22 PY - 2017 T1 - The Roles of the TNF-Family Member B-Cell Activation Factor Belonging to the TNF-Family (BAFF) in Autoimmunity N2 - The book Immunopathogenesis and Immune-Based Therapy for Selected Autoimmune Disorders is a synthesis work that discusses two main aspects of autoimmunity: Immunopathogenesis and therapeutic approaches essentially based on the immunotherapies. This book deals with different topics on a number of autoimmune disorders, including type 1 diabetes, autoimmune cardiomyopathy, autoimmunity of gastrointestinal tract, systemic sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis. This book will be useful to clinicians, biologists, researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in immunology and immunopathology. BT - Immunopathogenesis and Immune-based Therapy for Selected Autoimmune Disorders SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/66767 DO - 10.5772/66767 SN - 978-953-51-3022-2 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -