**AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS – CURRENT CONCEPTS AND ADVANCES FROM BEDSIDE TO MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS**

Edited by **Fang-Ping Huang**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1851 Edited by Fang-Ping Huang

#### **Contributors**

Tadeusz Robak, Ewa Robak, Manuel Ginarte, Jaime Toribio, M. Angeles Puertollano, Elena Puertollano, Gerardo Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Manuel Antonio de Pablo, Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, Norma Moy-Lopez, Jorge Guzman-Muniz, Maciej J. Machaczka, Malgorzata Maria Rucinska, Wojciech J. Sydor, Marta Szostek, Jacek Musial, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tadaatsu Imaizumi, Guang-Xian Zhang, Bruno Gran, James Crooks, Anna Rostedt Punga, Menachem Bitan, Markus Reindl, Simone Mader, Benjamin Obholzer, Giuseppe D'Annunzio, Chiara Russo, Renata Lorini, Ramona Tallone, Arpad Z. Barabas, Chad Cole, Jagat Rakesh Kanwar, Rupinder Kanwar, Tetsuji Naka, Satoshi Serada, Minoru Fujimoto, Soyoung Lee, Christine Delporte, Jason Perret, Muhammad Shahnawaz Soyfoo, Henry Kaminski, Austin Hake, David Gibson, Mark Duncan, Sorcha Finnegan, Stephen Pennington, Ji Qiu, Madeleine Rooney, Joshua LaBaer, Ekua Weba Brenu, Lotti Tajouri, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Don Staines, Yoshio Osada, Hideto To, Sergey Victorovich Suchkov, Dmitry Sergeevich Kostyushev, Dmitrii Gnatenko, Sevindj Gadjieva, Mihail Paltsev, Gabibov Aleksandr, Mikhail Paltsev, Xiaohong Li, Hua Zou, Konstantina Yiannopoulou, Indu Sabnani, Patricia Tsang, Giuseppina T. Russo, Elisabetta L. Romeo, Annalisa Giandalia, Mariapaola Cucinotta, Giuseppa Perdichizzi, Domenico Cucinotta, Provvidenza Villari, Angela A. Mirto, Adrienn Angyal, Jozsef Prechl, Gabriella Sarmay, György M. Nagy, Ediz Yesilkaya, Erkan Sari, Abdulbaki Karaoglu, David Ian Stott, Donna McIntyre

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Autoimmune Disorders - Current Concepts and Advances from Bedside to Mechanistic Insights Edited by Fang-Ping Huang p. cm.

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