Linking
Environmental Agents to Autoimmune Diseases
Introduction:
Linking Environmental Agents and Autoimmune Diseases
Glinda S. Cooper, Dori Germolec, Jerry Heindel, and MaryJane Selgrade
p. 659
Overview
Introduction
to Immunology and Autoimmunity
Dorinda A. Smith and Dori R. Germolec
p. 661
Evidence
for the Role of Environmental Agents in the Initiation or Progression
of Autoimmune Conditions
Jonathan J. Powell, Judy Van de Water, and M. Eric Gershwin
p. 667
Screening
Tests for Autoimmune-related Immunotoxicity
Raymond Pieters and Ruud Albers
p. 673
Autoimmunity
and Risk Assessment
Michael I. Luster, Petia P. Simeonova, Randy Gallucci, and Joanna Matheson
p. 679
Susceptibility
Gender
and Risk of Autoimmune Diseases: Possible Role of Estrogenic Compounds
S. Ansar Ahmed, B.D. Hissong, D. Verthelyi, K. Donner, K. Becker, and
E. Karpuzoglu-Sahin
p. 681
Prenatal
Immunotoxicant Exposure and Postnatal Autoimmune Disease
Steven D. Holladay
p. 687
The
Role of Genetic Factors in Autoimmune Disease: Implications for Environmental
Research
Glinda S. Cooper, Frederick W. Miller, and Janardan P. Pandey
p. 693
Neuroendocrine
Host Factors and Inflammatory Disease Susceptibility
Sophie Ligier and Esther M. Sternberg
p. 701
Systemic Diseases
Are
There Environmental Forms of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases?
Evelyn V. Hess
p. 709
New
Zealand Mixed Mice: A Genetic Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Model for
Assessing Environmental Effects
Ulrich H. Rudofsky and David A. Lawrence
p. 713
Immunopathogenesis
of Environmentally Induced Lupus in Mice
Victoria M. Shaheen, Minoru Satoh, Hanno B. Richards, Hideo Yoshida,
Melody Shaw, J. Charles Jennette, and Westley H. Reeves
p. 723
Lupus-Prone
Mice as Models to Study Xenobiotic-Induced Acceleration of Systemic
Autoimmunity
K. Michael Pollard, Deborah L. Pearson, Per Hultman, Bernhard Hildebrandt,
and Dwight H. Kono
p. 729
Environmentally
Induced Autoimmune Diseases: Potential Mechanisms
Tharaknath Rao and Bruce Richardson
p. 737
Epidemiologic
Studies of Environmental Agents and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
Maureen D. Mayes
p. 743
Organ-Specific Diseases
Linking
Iodine with Autoimmune Thyroiditis
Noel R. Rose, Linda Rasooly, Ali M. Saboori, and C. Lynne Burek
p. 749
Metals
and Kidney Autoimmunity
Pierluigi E. Bigazzi
p. 753
Neuroimmunotoxicology:
Humoral Assessment of Neurotoxicity and Autoimmune Mechanisms
Hassan A.N. El-Fawal, Stacey J. Waterman, Anthony De Feo, and Magdy
Y. Shamy
p. 767
The
Role of Environmental Factors in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus:
An Unresolved Issue
Meredith R. Kraine and Roland M. Tisch
p. 777
Specific Exposures and Mechanisms
The
Role of the Immune System in Hexachlorobenzene-Induced Toxicity
Carola C.P.P.C. Michielsen, Henk van Loveren, and Joseph G. Vos
p. 783
Occupational
Exposure to Crystalline Silica and Autoimmune Disease
Christine G. Parks, Karsten Conrad, and Glinda S. Cooper
p. 793
Initiation
of Autoimmunity by a Reactive Metabolite of a Lupus-Inducing Drug in
the Thymus
Robert L. Rubin and Anke Kretz-Rommel
p. 803
Cytokine
Regulation of a Rodent Model of Mercuric Chloride-Induced Autoimmunity
Lee M. Bagenstose, Padmini Salgame, and Marc Monestier
p. 807
Workshop Summary and Research Agenda
Linking
Environmental Agents and Autoimmune Disease: An Agenda for Future Research
MaryJane K. Selgrade, Glinda S. Cooper, Dori R. Germolec, and Jerrold
J. Heindel
p. 811
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